On the topology of CR-warped product submanifolds

We obtain a necessary condition for homology group to be zero on CR-warped product submanifold in Euclidean spaces in terms of second fundamental form of the submanifold and warping function. By using this condition, we show that such CR-warped product submanifold is a homotopy sphere.

Smith equivalence of representations

An old question of P. A. Smith asks: If a finite group G acts smoothly on a closed homotopy sphere Σ with fixed set ΣG consisting of two points p and q, are the tangential representations Tp Σ and Tq Σ of G at p and q equal? Put another way: Describe the representations (V, W) of G which occur as (Tp ΣTq Σ) for Σ a sphere with smooth action of G and ΣG = p ∪ q. Under these conditions we say V and W are Smith equivalent (21) and write V ~ W. A stronger equivalence relation is also interesting. We say representations V and W are s-Smith equivalent if (V, W) = (Tp Σ, Tq Σ) and Σ is a semi-linear G sphere (23), i.e. ΣK is a homotopy sphere for all K and ΣG = p ∪ q. In this case we write V ≈ W.

σ4-Actions On Homotopy Spheres

Let σ4 denote the group of all permutations of {a, b, c, d}. It has 24 elements, partitioned into five conjugacy classes: (1) the identity 1; (2) 6 transpositions: (ab), …, (cd); (3) 8 elements of order 3: (abc), …, (bcd); (4) 6 elements of order 4: (abcd), …, (adcb); (5) 3 elements of order 2: x = (ab)(cd), y = (ac)(bd), z = (ad)(bc).In this paper, we study the differentiate actions of σ4 on odd-dimensional homotopy spheres modelled on the linear actions, with the fixed point set of each transposition a codimension two homotopy sphere.A simple (2n – l)-knot is a differentiate embedding of a homotopy sphere K2n–l into a homotopy sphere Σ2n+1 such that πj(Σ – K) = πj(S1) for j < n.