English

Minimal homeomorphisms and topological $K$-theory

Dynamical Systems 2022-02-02 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

The Lefschetz fixed point theorem provides a powerful obstruction to the existence of minimal homeomorphisms on well-behaved spaces such as finite CW-complexes. We show that these obstructions do not hold for more general spaces. More precisely, minimal homeomorphisms are constructed on space with prescribed KK-theory or cohomology. We also allow for some control of the map on KK-theory and cohomology induced from these minimal homeomorphisms. This allows for the construction of many minimal homeomorphisms that are not homotopic to the identity. Applications to CC^*-algebras will be discussed in another paper.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2012.10950,
  title  = {Minimal homeomorphisms and topological $K$-theory},
  author = {Robin J. Deeley and Ian F. Putnam and Karen R. Strung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10950},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages. To appear in Groups, Geom. Dyn. This supersedes arXiv:1907.03851, which will not be submitted for publication

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