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The Brouwer’s plane translation theorem asserts that for a fixed point free orientation preserving homeomorphism f of the plane, every point belongs to a Brouwer line: a proper topological embedding C of R, disjoint from its image and separating f(C) and f–1(C). Suppose that f commutes with the elements of a discrete group G of orientation preserving homeomorphisms acting freely and properly on the plane. We will construct a G-invariant topological foliation of the plane by Brouwer lines. We apply this result to give simple proofs of previous results about area-preserving homeomorphisms of surfaces and to prove the following theorem: any Hamiltonian homeomorphism of a closed surface of genus g ≥ 1 has infinitely many contractible periodic points.
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Le Calvez, P. Une version feuilletée équivariante du théorème de translation de Brouwer. Publ.math.IHES 102, 1–98 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10240-005-0034-1
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