Localized intersection of currents and the Lefschetz coincidence point theorem

DOI10.1007/S10231-015-0480-4MaRDI QIDQ268226zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cinzia Bisi, Filippo Bracci, Takeshi Izawa, Tatsuo Suwa

Publication date 14 April 2016

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0607

coincidence current de Rham cohomology fixed point intersection invariants Lefschetz fixed point theorem manifold residue theorem Thom class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Integration on analytic sets and spaces, currents (32C30) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Duality in algebraic topology (55M05) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Currents in global analysis (58A25)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of a Thom class of a current and define the localized intersection of currents. In particular we consider the situation where we have a smooth map of manifolds and study localized intersections of the source manifold and currents on the target manifold. We then obtain a residue theorem on the source manifold and give explicit formulas for the residues in some cases. These are applied to the problem of coincidence points of two maps. We define the global and local coincidence homology classes and indices. A representation of the Thom class of the graph as a Cech-de~Rham cocycle immediately gives us an explicit expression of the index at an isolated coincidence point, which in turn gives explicit coincidence classes in some non-isolated components. Combining these, we have a general coincidence point theorem including the one by S. Lefschetz.

Review text

This is a very interesting article. The authors study the localization problem for currents on manifolds and coincidences of maps on manifolds. The notion of a Thom class of a current is introduced and the localized intersection of two currents defined. By considering the intersection of a current with a submanifold the authors obtain a residue theorem. As an application the study of the existence of coincidence points of two maps is presented. In particular the global (and in case of a compact source manifold) local coincidence class of two maps is defined. The obtained results, a general coincidence theorem, which provides a formula describing the global coincidence class in terms of local classes, generalizes the celebrated Lefschetz coincidence theorem. Some other issues are also of independent interest. For instance explicit formulas for the coincidence point index are very neat. The paper is very well organized and clearly written. In the reviewer opinion it is accessible also for a not that well-experienced reader. The paper is an interesting contribution to the geometry of manifolds and the fixed point theory.

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