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Free Actions By Elementary Abelian 2-Groups on Stiefel Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Larry W. Cusick*
Affiliation:
Department Of Mathematics California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, Ca 90840
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Abstract

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Let Vn, k denote the Stiefel manifold of k-frames in ℝn. There is a free action on Vn, k by the group . We show that if acts freely on and

then l≤k

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1984

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