The fixed-point index for the class of compositions of acyclic set-valued maps on ANR-s (Q1915434)

This note presents an integer-valued fixed-point index theory satisfying all axioms for the class of compositions of acyclic set-valued maps on arbitrary absolute neighbourhood retracts. Following the introduction which describes earlier attempts to define fixed-point index theory for multivalued maps, the paper is divided into two sections. The first studies homotopy and index in normed spaces while the second gives definition of a fixed-point index on ANR's and proves the commutativity, \(\bmod p\), normalization, and multiplicativity of this index.