1 February 2011 On the orders of periodic diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
Weimin Chen
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Duke Math. J. 156(2): 273-310 (1 February 2011). DOI: 10.1215/00127094-2010-212

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This paper initiated an investigation on the following question: Suppose that a smooth 4-manifold does not admit any smooth circle actions. Does there exist a constant C>0 such that the manifold supports no smooth Zp-actions of prime order for p>C? We gave affirmative results to this question for the case of holomorphic and symplectic actions, with an interesting finding that the constant C in the holomorphic case is topological in nature, while in the symplectic case it involves also the smooth structure of the manifold.

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Weimin Chen. "On the orders of periodic diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds." Duke Math. J. 156 (2) 273 - 310, 1 February 2011. https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2010-212

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Published: 1 February 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 2 February 2011

zbMATH: 1216.57019
MathSciNet: MR2769218
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/00127094-2010-212

Subjects:
Primary: 57R57 , 57S15
Secondary: 57R17

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Duke University Press

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