The Wecken property for random maps on surfaces with boundary

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2012.08.019zbMATH Open1260.55002arXiv1109.0218OpenAlexW2002476355MaRDI QIDQ694660FDOQ694660

Authors: Jacqueline Brimley, Matthew Griisser, P. Christopher Staecker, Allison N. Miller 

Publication date: 13 December 2012

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A selfmap is Wecken when the minimal number of fixed points among all maps in its homotopy class is equal to the Nielsen number, a homotopy invariant lower bound on the number of fixed points. All selfmaps are Wecken for manifolds of dimension not equal to 2, but some non-Wecken maps exist on surfaces. We attempt to measure how common the Wecken property is on surfaces with boundary by estimating the proportion of maps which are Wecken, measured by asymptotic density. Intuitively, this is the probability that a randomly chosen homotopy class of maps consists of Wecken maps. We show that this density is nonzero for surfaces with boundary. When the fundamental group of our space is free of rank n, we give nonzero lower bounds for the density of Wecken maps in terms of n, and compute the (nonzero) limit of these bounds as n goes to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0218

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zbMATH Keywords

fixed pointfree groupNielsen theoryWecken property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generic properties, structural stability of dynamical systems (37C20) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

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