{ "id": "1106.0147", "version": "v2", "published": "2011-06-01T11:40:46.000Z", "updated": "2011-11-10T11:59:38.000Z", "title": "On an algebraic formula and applications to group action on manifolds", "authors": [ "Ping Li", "Kefeng Liu" ], "comment": "7 pages, revised slightly to update a new reference and reassign the credit of the idea in this note", "journal": "Asian J. Math. 17 (2013), 383-390", "categories": [ "math.AT", "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We consider a purely algebraic result. Then given a circle or cyclic group of prime order action on a manifold, we will use it to estimate the lower bound of the number of fixed points. We also give an obstruction to the existence of $\\mathbb{Z}_p$ action on manifolds with isolated fixed points when $p$ is a prime.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2011-11-10T11:59:38.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "group action", "algebraic formula", "applications", "fixed points", "prime order action" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1106.0147L" } } }