Persistence of fixed points under rigid perturbations of maps

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Abstract: Let f:S1imes[0,1]oS1imes[0,1] be a real-analytic annulus diffeomorphism which is homotopic to the identity map and preserves an area form. Assume that for some lift ildef:mathbbRimes[0,1]ightarrowmathbbRimes[0,1] we have mFix(ildef)=mathbbRimes0 and that ildef positively translates points in mathbbRimes1. Let ildefepsilon be the perturbation of ildef by the rigid horizontal translation (x,y)mapsto(x+epsilon,y). We show that for all epsilon>0 sufficiently small we have mFix(ildefepsilon)=emptyset. The proof follows from Ker'ekj'art'o's construction of Brouwer lines for orientation preserving homeomorphisms of the plane with no fixed points. This result turns out to be sharp with respect to the regularity assumption: there exists a diffeomorphism f satisfying all the properties above, except that f is not real-analytic but only smooth, so that the above conclusion is false. Such a map is constructed via generating functions.











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