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On invariant knots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Sławomir Kwasik  and
Pierre Vogel
Sławomir Kwasik
Affiliation:
Université de Nantes, Institut de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, 44072 Nantes cédex, France
Pierre Vogel
Affiliation:
Université de Nantes, Institut de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, 44072 Nantes cédex, France
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It was first proved by R. Lashof in [4], using the work of S. Cappell and J. Shaneson on four-dimensional surgeryu (see [1]), that there exist locally flat topological knots S3 ∪ S5 which are not smoothable. In [2] (compare also [6]) S. Cappell and J. Shaneson have constructed infinitely many non-smoothable locally fat topological knots as the fixed points of locally nice (= locally smoothable) Zp actions on S5, therefore giving non-trivial examples of locally smoothable but equivariantly non-smoothable actions of Zp on S5.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , November 1984 , pp. 473 - 475
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1984

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