From: Jim Milgram <milgram@gauss.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: sph space forms
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 07:38:08 -0800 (PST)

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill <j.m.figueroa@qmw.ac.uk>
> To: jds@math.unc.edu
> Subject: Topology of spherical forms
>
> Maybe you can point me in the right direction:
> I need to compute the integer (co)homology groups for spherical forms:
>        S^{2n+1}/G
> where G are some finite subgroup of SO(2n+2) acting on the sphere in
> the usual way: the sphere is the unit sphere in R^{2n+2} on which G
> acts naturally.  I'm restricting myself to groups G such that the
> above space is regular, by the way.
> Where can I look this up?
> Thanks in advance, Jose
>
>
>
>
There is at least one readily available source: the book of Adem and
Milgram on Cohomology of Finite Groups, Springer-Verlag.  The classification
of all the periodic groups is given there as well as the cohomology of
each.

Jim Milgram

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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:52:03 -0500 (EST)
From: James Stasheff <jds@math.unc.edu>

many htnaks for the several responses to the physicists question
the book on spherical space forms seems th most likely

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