Obstruction theoretic methods are introduced into isovariant homotopy theory for a class of spaces with group actions; the latter includes all smooth actions of cyclic groups of prime power order. The central technical result is an equivalence between isovariant homotopy and spe…
It is shown that a 2-connected homotopy commutative H-space with associative mod 2 homology ring and finitely generated mod 2 cohomology ring has acyclic mod 2 cohomology. This implies that a connected, homotopy commutative, homotopy associative H-space with finitely generated m…
Given a degree one normal map and a closed manifold one can form their product. The result is another degree one normal map. In this paper we calculate the surgery obstruction of the product in terms of the obstruction of the original normal map and invariants of the closed mani…