nLab Richard Palais

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Selected writings

On topological G-spaces, classifying spaces, the equivariant Tietze extension theorem, …:

• Richard Palais, The classification of $G$-spaces, Memoirs of the AMS 36, 1960 (ISBN:978-0-8218-9979-3 pdf, pdf)

On the slice theorem:

• Richard Palais, Slices and equivariant embeddings, chapter VIII in: Armand Borel (ed.), Seminar on Transformation Groups, Annals of Mathematics Studies 46, Princeton University Press 1960 (jstor:j.ctt1bd6jxd)

• Richard Palais, On the Existence of Slices for Actions of Non-Compact Lie Groups, Annals of Mathematics

  Second Series, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Mar., 1961), pp. 295-323 (jstor:1970335, doi:10.2307/1970335, pdf)

On homotopy theory of infinite-dimensional manifolds, such as the absolute neighbourhood retract-property of paracompact Banach manifolds:

• Richard S. Palais, Homotopy theory of infinite dimensional manifolds, Topology 5 1 (1966) 1-16 (doi:10.1016/0040-9383(66)90002-4)

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