The relative Nielsen number and boundary-preserving surface maps (Q1318503)

This paper continues the study of the difference between the minimal number of fixed points and the relative Nielsen number in the category of boundary-preserving surface maps begun by \textit{R. F. Brown} and \textit{B. J. Sanderson} [Fixed points of boundary-preserving maps of surfaces, ibid. 158, No. 2, 243-264 (1993; Zbl 0786.57005)]. Specifically, two results are given: (1) The list of surfaces for which this difference can be arbitrarily large is extended to include all surfaces obtained by deleting a finite number of holes from a closed surface with nonpositive Euler characteristic; (2) On the other hand, Brown and Sanderson show that for the pants surface this difference is at most one. Here an example is given to establish that it is, in fact, equal to one.