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In this paper we further develop the theory of equivariantSeiberg-Witten-Floer cohomology of the two authors, with an emphasis onBrieskorn homology spheres. We obtain the following applications. First, weshow that the knot concordance invariants $\theta^{(c)}$ defined by the firstauthor satisfy $\theta^{(c)}(T_{a,b}) = (a-1)(b-1)/2$ for torus knots, whenever$c$ is a prime not dividing $ab$. Since $\theta^{(c)}$ is a lower bound for theslice genus, this gives a new proof of the Milnor conjecture of a similarflavour to the proofs using the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o $\tau$-invariant or Rasmussen$s$-invariant. Second, we prove that a free cyclic group action on a Brieskornhomology $3$-sphere $Y = \Sigma(a_1 , \dots , a_r)$ does not extend smoothly toany contractible smooth $4$-manifold bounding $Y$. This generalises toarbitrary $r$ the result of Anvari-Hambleton in the case $r=3$. Third, given afinite subgroup of the Seifert circle action on $Y = \Sigma(a_1 , \dots , a_r)$of prime order $p$ acting non-freely on $Y$, we prove that if the rank of$HF_{red}^+(Y)$ is greater than $p$ times the rank of$HF_{red}^+(Y/\mathbb{Z}_p)$, then the $\mathbb{Z}_p$-action on $Y$ does notextend smoothly to any contractible smooth $4$-manifold bounding $Y$. We alsoprove a similar non-extension result for equivariant connected sums ofBrieskorn homology spheres.

Brieskorn spheres, cyclic group actions and the Milnor conjecture