Fixed points of boundary-preserving maps of surfaces (Q1314973)

Let \(X\) be a compact 2-manifold with nonempty boundary \(\partial X\). Given a boundary-preserving map \(f: (X,\partial X)\to (X,\partial X)\), let \(MF_ \partial [f]\) denote the minimum number of fixed points of all boundary-preserving maps homotopic to \(f\) as maps of pairs and let \(N_ \partial(f)\) be the relative Nielsen number of \(f\) in the sense of \textit{H. Schirmer} [ibid. 122, 459-473 (1986; Zbl 0553.55001)]. Call \(X\) boundary-Wecken, bW, if \(MF_ \partial [f]= N_ \partial(f)\) for all boundary-preserving maps of \(X\), almost bW if \(MF_ \partial [f]-N_ \partial (f)\) is bounded for all such \(f\), and totally non-bW otherwise. We show that if the Euler characteristic of \(X\) is non-negative, then \(X\) is bW. On the other hand, except for a relatively small number of cases, we demonstrate that the 2-manifolds of negative Euler characteristic are totally non-bW. For one of the remaining cases, the pants surface \(P\), we use techniques of transversality theory to examine the fixed point behavior of boundary-preserving maps of \(P\), and show that \(P\) is almost bW.