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In this article, we show the existence of conjugations on many smooth simply-connected spin 6-manifolds with free integral cohomology. In a certain class the only condition on X 6 to admit a conjugation with fixed point set M 3 is the obvious one: the existence of a degree-halving ring isomorphism between the \({\mathbb Z_2}\)-cohomologies of X and M. As a consequence certain 6-manifolds, for which Puppe (J Fixed Point Theory Appl 2(1):85–96, 2007) proved the non-existence of non-trivial orientation-preserving finite group actions, do admit many involutions.
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Olbermann, M. Conjugations on 6-manifolds with free integral cohomology. Math. Ann. 353, 65–93 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-011-0673-0
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