Adding a point to configurations in closed balls

DOI10.1090/PROC/14712MaRDI QIDQ5210959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lei Chen, Nir Gadish, Justin Lanier

Publication date 16 January 2020

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06946

zbMATH Keywords

braidBrouwer fixed point theoremcohomologyconfiguration spacesection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: We answer the question of when a new point can be added in a continuous way to configurations of $n$ distinct points in a closed ball of arbitrary dimension. We show that this is possible given an ordered configuration of $n$ points if and only if $neq1$. On the other hand, when the points are not ordered and the dimension of the ball is at least 2, a point can be added continuously if and only if $n=2$. These results generalize the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, which gives the negative answer when $n=1$. We also show that when $n=2$, there is a unique solution to both the ordered and unordered versions of the problem up to homotopy.

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