@inbook{81f2e7109c2e11db8ed6000ea68e967b,
title = "Symmetries on manifolds, deformations and rational homotopy: a survey",
abstract = "The question whether every manifold admits a non-trivial group action has been answered to the negative already back in 1971. Several authors have given classes of examples of manifolds, on which no such {"}symmetry{"} can exist. This survey describes a method showing the existence of symmetries on certain classes of simply-connected manifolds. It aims to explain a blend of methods from transformation group theory, deformation theory, rational homotopy and rational surgery.",
author = "Martin Raussen",
year = "2002",
language = "English",
series = "K-monographs in Mathematics",
number = "7",
booktitle = "Current Trends in Transformation Groups",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
}