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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2021

    starting something. There is nothing to be seen yet, but I need to save.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2021

    now some minimum content (and all or most original references) in place.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2021
    • (edited Apr 2nd 2021)

    added this pointer:

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2021

    added something closer to the traditional form of the definition of a “slice”

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2021

    added a general abstract definition of slices as those HH-subspace inclusions whose GG-induced action adjunct is an isomorphism.

    (I have never seen an author admit this, but that’s evidently the right abstract definition.)

    Also added an Idea-section.

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    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2021

    Under Def 2.1

    Then a slice in a GG-action UU…

    That should be ’HH-slice’?

    We hadn’t yet heard the term on this page. It’s the same as ’slice through GG-orbits modulo HH’ earlier?

    Is there a way to see Cauchy surface as such a thing?

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2021
    • (edited Apr 12th 2021)

    I see, okay I made it say “H-slice” in Def. 2.1.

    And yes, if time evolution on some manifold is already given as an ℝ 1\mathbb{R}^1-action with timelike flow lines, then slices for this action (“1-slices”) are Cauchy surfaces!

    I won’t edit further right now, since I am just on my phone at the moment, but we could add this as an example.

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    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2021

    Added Cauchy surfaces as an example.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2021

    added a warning that Palais’s definition of “proper action” is not quite the usual one, unless some extra conditions are met.

    Will straighten this out tomorrow. Have to call it quits now.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2021
    • (edited Apr 13th 2021)

    Okay, I have added to the statement of the theorem the condition that XX be locally compact, and then added a Remark (here) that Palais61 goes to some trouble to generalize away from this assumption by carefully adjusting the definition of proper action.

    But I won’t go down that road now, will assume local compactness and keep fingers crossed that this won’t bite me later.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2021

    added pointer to:

    This has a proof that for SS an HH-slice, then G×S→G⋅SG \times S \to G \cdot S is an open map.

    I had been looking for this statement, since it implies that for SS a slice through some point, also its intersection with any open neighbourhood of the point is still a slice through the point. This is used without comment in Lashof’s “Equivariant bundles and I fail to see how it doesn’t require an argument. Such as Antonyan’s.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2021

    I have added a new section “Examples and Applications – Principal bundles” (here), with proof that free proper actions of Lie groups on locally compact Hausdorff spaces have quotient coprojections which are principal bundles.

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    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2021

    added the statement of the slice theorem for compact groups acting on completely regular spaces (here)

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2021

    Made explicit (here) the trivial but important example that GG-slices through points whose stabilizer is the entire equivariance group GG are given by the entire GG-space.

    Used this to complete the following example (here) of slices through points in the canonical O(n+1)O(n+1)-action on ℝ n+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1}.

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  15. I corrected the statement regarding the existence of slices for compact group actions: One has to assume that the group is a Lie group, otherwise the theorem is false even for group actions on compact metric spaces (as proven by Kolmogorov). See

    R. F. Williams, A useful functor and three famous examples in topology. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 106 (1963) 319–329.

    Michael Kapovich

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2024

    Thanks. Right, that’s also what it says in the references that I cited.

    I have now added pointer to the article by Williams that you point out, together with a remark (here). But I’d need to study this article more closely, maybe you could add more commentary.

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    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2024

    There’s a version of this slice theorem for proper Lie groupoids. I once made some notes around this at https://ncatlab.org/davidroberts/show/cocompact+proper+Lie+groupoids

  18. Just now I updated the reference for slice theorem in the case of proper action. The original proof of Palais is very long (divides itself into 8 cases). The proof provided in GGK is much shorter (half a page).

    Chenchang Zhu

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