Transformation Groups Poznań 1985: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Poznań, July 5–9, 1985

Bounds on the torus rank....Pages 1-10
The equivariant wall finiteness obstruction and Whitehead torsion....Pages 11-25
Homotopy actions and cohomology of finite groups....Pages 26-57
Normally linear Poincaré complexes and equivariant splittings....Pages 58-78
Free (ℤ/2) k -actions and a problem in commutative algebra....Pages 79-83
Verschlingungszahlen von Fixpunktmengen in Darstellungsformen. II....Pages 84-91
An algebraic approach to the generalized Whitehead group....Pages 92-114
Almost complex S 1 -actions on cohomology complex projective spaces....Pages 115-122
A product formula for equivariant Whitehead torsion and geometric applications....Pages 123-142
Balanced orbits for fibre preserving maps of S 1 and S 3 actions....Pages 143-150
Involutions on 2-handlebodies....Pages 151-166
Normal combinatorics of G-actions on manifolds....Pages 167-182
Topological invariance of equivariant rational Pontrjagin classes....Pages 183-195
On the existence of acyclic Γ complexes of the lowest possible dimension....Pages 196-209
Unstable homotopy theory of homotopy representations....Pages 210-248
Duality in orbit spaces....Pages 249-252
Cyclic homology and idempotents in group rings....Pages 253-257
ℤ 2 surgery theory and smooth involutions on homotopy complex projective spaces....Pages 258-289
Proper subanalytic transformation groups and unique triangulation of the orbit spaces....Pages 290-302
A remark on duality and the Segal conjecture....Pages 303-305
On the bounded and thin h-cobordism theorem parameterized by ℝ k ....Pages 306-320
Algebraic and geometric splittings of the K- and L-groups of polynomial extensions....Pages 321-363
Coherence in homotopy group actions....Pages 364-390
Existence of compact flat Riemannian manifolds with the first Betti number equal to zero....Pages 391-393
Which groups have strange torsion?....Pages 394-396