Fixed points of diffeomorphisms on nilmanifolds with a free nilpotent fundamental group (Q2194556)

Let \(G\) be a group. The Reidemeister spectrum of \(G\) is the set \[\text{Spec}_{R}(G) = \{R(\varphi)\mid \varphi \in \text{Aut}(G) \}, \] where \(R(\varphi)\) is the Reidmeister number of \(\varphi.\) In this paper, based on some computations of Reidemeister spectra, the authors prove that for any nonnegative integer \(n\) there exists a self-diffeomorphism \(h_n\) of \(M\) such that \(h_n\) has exactly \(n\) fixed points and any self-map \(f\) of \(M\) which is homotopic to \(h_n\) has at least \(n\) fixed points. Here, \(M\) is a nilmanifold with a fundamental group which is free 2-step nilpotent on at least 4 generators.