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Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1900, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to longer research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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Fixed points of arc-component-preserving maps
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by Charles L. Hagopian
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 306 (1988), 411-420
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1988-0927698-2

Abstract:

The following classical problem remains unsolved: If $M$ is a plane continuum that does not separate the plane and $f$ is a map of $M$ into $M$, must $f$ have a fixed point? We prove that the answer is yes if $f$ maps each arc-component of $M$ into itself. Since every deformation of a space preserves its arc-components, this result establishes the fixed-point property for deformations of nonseparating plane continua. It also generalizes the author’s theorem [10] that every arcwise connected nonseparating plane continuum has the fixed-point property. Our proof shows that every arc-component-preserving map of an indecomposable plane continuum has a fixed point. We also prove that every tree-like continuum that does not contain uncountably many disjoint triods has the fixed-point property for arc-component-preserving maps.
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Bibliographic Information
  • © Copyright 1988 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 306 (1988), 411-420
  • MSC: Primary 54F20; Secondary 54H25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1988-0927698-2
  • MathSciNet review: 927698