Richard Sheldon Palais (1931–2026)
On topological G-spaces, classifying spaces, the equivariant Tietze extension theorem, …:
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 Morse theory over infinite-dimensional Hilbert manifolds:
Richard S. Palais: Morse theory on Hilbert manifolds, Topology, 2 4 (1963) 299–340 [doi:10.1016/0040-9383(63)90013-2]
Richard S. Palais, Stephen Smale: A generalized Morse theory, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 70 1 (1964) 165–172 [doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1964-11062-4, euclid:bams/1183525794]
On homotopy theory of infinite-dimensional manifolds, such as the absolute neighbourhood retract-property of paracompact Banach manifolds:
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