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Fixed points of abelian actions on S2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

JOHN FRANKS ,
MICHAEL HANDEL  and
KAMLESH PARWANI
JOHN FRANKS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2730, USA (email: john@math.northwestern.edu)
MICHAEL HANDEL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Herbert H Lehman College (CUNY), 250, Bedford Park, Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468, USA (email: michael.handel@lehman.cuny.edu)
KAMLESH PARWANI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920-3099, USA (email: forty2@math.northwestern.edu)
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Abstract

We prove that if is a finitely generated abelian group of orientation preserving C1 diffeomorphisms of which leaves invariant a compact set then there is a common fixed point for all elements of . We also show that if is any abelian subgroup of orientation preserving C1 diffeomorphisms of S2 then there is a common fixed point for all elements of a subgroup of with index at most two.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2007 , pp. 1557 - 1581
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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