Nonexistence of Smooth Effective One Fixed Point Actions of Finite Oliver Groups on Low-dimensional Spheres

Abstract

According to the work of Laitinen, Morimoto, Oliver and Pawa\l{}owski, a finite group $G$ has a smooth effective one fixed point action on some sphere if and only if $G$ is an Oliver group. For some finite Oliver groups $G$ of order up to $216$, and for $G=A_5\times C_n$ for $n=3,5,7$, we present a strategy of excluding of smooth effective one fixed point $G$-actions on low-dimensional spheres.