Presentation complexes with the fixed point property

DOI10.2140/GT.2017.21.1275MaRDI QIDQ520890zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Iván Sadofschi Costa

Publication date 6 April 2017

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02350, http://hdl.handle.net/11336/55462

zbMATH Keywords

fixed point propertytwo-dimensional complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

Abstract: We prove that there exists a compact two-dimensional polyhedron with the fixed point property and even Euler characteristic. This answers a question posed by R.H. Bing in 1969. We also settle another of Bing's questions.

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