$\mathbb{Z}_p$-torus actions on positively curved manifolds

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Muhammad, Searle, Catherine
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Searle, Catherine
contents In this article, we study closed, positively curved $n$-manifolds that admit an effective, isometric $\mathbb{Z}_p^r$-action with a fixed point, where $p$ is an odd prime. For all sufficiently large $n$, we obtain a symmetry-rank bound in Theorem A that improves the $3n/8$ bound of Fang and Rong and of Ghazawneh. We improve on this bound for small odd primes $3\leq p\leq 19$ in Theorem B. One of our main tools comes from the theory of error-correcting codes and is of independent interest: we derive a finite-length Plotkin bound and a finite-length Elias-Bassalygo bound for $q$-ary codes and show that the finite-length Plotkin bound is asymptotically sharper for all primes $p \ge 23$.
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spellingShingle $\mathbb{Z}_p$-torus actions on positively curved manifolds
Abdullah, Muhammad
Searle, Catherine
Differential Geometry
53C21, 20K01
In this article, we study closed, positively curved $n$-manifolds that admit an effective, isometric $\mathbb{Z}_p^r$-action with a fixed point, where $p$ is an odd prime. For all sufficiently large $n$, we obtain a symmetry-rank bound in Theorem A that improves the $3n/8$ bound of Fang and Rong and of Ghazawneh. We improve on this bound for small odd primes $3\leq p\leq 19$ in Theorem B. One of our main tools comes from the theory of error-correcting codes and is of independent interest: we derive a finite-length Plotkin bound and a finite-length Elias-Bassalygo bound for $q$-ary codes and show that the finite-length Plotkin bound is asymptotically sharper for all primes $p \ge 23$.
title $\mathbb{Z}_p$-torus actions on positively curved manifolds
topic Differential Geometry
53C21, 20K01
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26853