English

A fixed-point-free map of a tree-like continuum induced by bounded valence maps on trees

General Topology 2018-09-19 v1

Abstract

Towards attaining a better working understanding of fixed points of maps of tree-like continua, Oversteegen and Rogers constructed a tree-like continuum with a fixed-point-free self-map, described explicitly in terms of inverse limits. Specifically, they developed a sequence of trees TnT_n, nNn \in \mathbb{N} and maps fnf_n and gng_n from Tn+1T_{n+1} to TnT_n for each nn, such that the gng_n maps induce a fixed-point-free self-map of the inverse limit space lim(Tn,fn)\varprojlim (T_n,f_n). The complexity of the trees and the valences of the maps in their example all grow exponentially with nn, making it difficult to visualize and compute with their space and map. We construct another such example, in which the maps fnf_n and gng_n have uniformly bounded valence, and the trees TnT_n have a simpler structure.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.08094,
  title  = {A fixed-point-free map of a tree-like continuum induced by bounded valence maps on trees},
  author = {Rodrigo Hernández-Gutiérrez and L. C. Hoehn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08094},
  year   = {2018}
}