CAT 1985

Conference on
Algebraic Topology
July 5 - 9, 1985
Poznan, Poland

List of Talks:

A. Assadi (Charlottesville)	Homotopy actions and G-modules
W. Browder (Princeton)	Actions on projective varieties
K.H. Dovermann (West Lafayette)	Symmetries of complex projective spaces
J. Ewing (Bloomington)	Symmetries of surfaces and homology
S. Illman (Helsinki)	Product formula for equivariant Whitehead torsion
S. Jackowski (Warszawa)	A fixed point theorem for p-group actions
J. Kania-Bartoszynska (Warszawa)	Classification of involutions on 2-handlebodies
E. Laitinen (Helsinki)	Unstable homotopy theory of homotopy representations
M. Lewkowicz (Wroclaw)	Nonabelian Lie group actions and positive scalar curvature
A. Liulevicius (Chicago)	Duality of symmetric powers of cycles
P. Loffler (Gottingen)	Realization of exotic linking numbers of fixed point sets in representation forms
Z. Marciniak (Warszawa)	Idempotents in group rings and cyclic homology
W. Marzantowicz (Gdansk)	The S¹-equivariant topology and periodic solutions of ordinary differential equations
R. Oliver (Aarhus)	A transfer map for compact Lie group actions
K. Pawalowski (Poznan)	Smooth group actions on disks and Euclidean spaces
E.K. Pedersen (Odense)	The bounded and thin h-cobordism theorems
V. Puppe (Konstanz)	Bounds on the torus rank
M. Sadowski (Gdansk)	Injective S¹-actions on manifolds covered by Rⁿ
A. Szczepanski (Gdansk)	Euclidean space forms with the first Betti number equal to zero
J. Tornehave (Aarhus)	Units in Burnside rings and the Kummer theory pairing
R. Vogt (Osnabruck):	Coherence theory and group actions
S. Weintraub (Baton rouge)	Group actions and certain algebraic varieties

Proceedings from the conference appeared in
Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1217

Table of contents:

C. Allday and V. Puppe Bounds on the torus rank.
P. Andrzejewski The equivariant Wall finiteness obstruction and Whitehead torsion.
A. Assadi Homotopy actions and cohomology of finite groups.
A. Assadi Normally linear Poincaré complexes and equivariant splittings.
G. Carlsson Free (Z/2)^k-actions and a problem in commutative algebra
T. tom Dieck and P. Loffler Verschlingungszahlen von Fixpunktmengen in Darstellungsformen. II.
K.H. Dovermann and M. Rothenberg An algebraic approach to the generalized Whitehead group.
A. Hattori Almost complex S¹-actions on cohomology complex projective spaces.
S. Illman A product formula for equivariant Whitehead torsion and geometric applications.
J. Jaworowski Balanced orbits for fibre preserving maps of S¹ and S³ actions
J. Kania-Bartoszynska Involutions on 2-handlebodies.
G. Katz Normal combinatorics of G-actions on manifolds.
K. Kawakubo Topological invariance of equivariant rational Pontrjagin classes.
Kozniewski On the existence of acyclic $\Gamma$ complexes of the lowest possible dimension.
E. Laitinen Unstable homotopy theory of homotopy representations.
A. Liulevicius and M. Ozaydin Duality in orbit spaces.
Z. Marciniak Cyclic homology and idempotents in group rings.
M. Masuda Z₂ surgery theory and smooth involutions on homotopy complex projective spaces.
T. Matumoto and M. Shiota Proper subanalytic transformation groups and unique triangulation of the orbit spaces.
J.P. May A remark on duality and the Segal conjecture.
E.K. Pedersen On the bounded and thin h-cobordism theorem parameterized by R^k.
A. Ranicki Algebraic and geometric splittings of the K- and L-groups of polynomial extensions.
R. Schwanzl and R.M. Vogt Coherence in homotopy group actions.
A. Szczepanski Existence of compact flat Riemannian manifolds with the first Betti number equal to zero.
S.H. Weintraub Which groups have strange torsion?