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Does a compact Lie group action on a family of compact manifolds have diffeomorphic fixed point submanifolds?

Let $\pi: M\to B$ be a fiber bundle of smooth manifolds with $B$ connected and each fiber of $\pi$ is a compact manifold. Let $G$ be a compact Lie group acting smoothly on $M$ such that$\pi(g\cdot m)=\pi(m)$. It is clear that $G$ acts smoothly on each fiber $M_b$ for $b\in B$.

Noe fix a $g\in G$. For each $b\in B$ we consider the fixed point submanifold $M_b^g\subset M_b$.

My question is: when $b$ varies, does the diffeomorphic type of $M_b^g$ unchanged?


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