Abstract:
For a $p$-toral group $G$, we answer the question which compact (respectively, open) smooth manifolds $M$ can be diffeomorphic to the fixed point sets of smooth actions of $G$ on compact (respectively, open) smooth manifolds $E$ of the homotopy type of a finite $\mathbb Z$-acyclic CW complex admitting a cellular map of period $p$, with exactly one fixed point. In the case where the CW complex is contractible, $E$ can be chosen to be a disk (respectively, Euclidean space).