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The Lefschetz fixed point theorem and its converse have many generalizations. One of these generalizations is to endomorphisms of a space relative to a fixed subspace. In this paper we define relative Lefschetz numbers and Reidemeister…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Kate Ponto

By the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, if an endomorphism of a topological space is fixed-point-free, then its Lefschetz number vanishes. This necessary condition is not usually sufficient, however; for that we need a refinement of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

Traces in symmetric monoidal categories are well-known and have many applications; for instance, their functoriality directly implies the Lefschetz fixed point theorem. However, for some applications, such as generalizations of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

The Lefschetz number and fixed point index can be thought of as two different descriptions of the same invariant. The Lefschetz number is algebraic and defined using homology. The index is defined more directly from the topology and is a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Kate Ponto

We prove two general decomposition theorems for fixed-point invariants: one for the Lefschetz number and one for the Reidemeister trace. These theorems imply the familiar additivity results for these invariants. Moreover, the proofs of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

We reexamine equivariant generalizations of the Lefschetz number and Reidemeister trace using categorical traces. This gives simple, conceptual descriptions of the invariants as well as direct comparisons to previously defined…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Kate Ponto

We introduce two novel complementary notions of the Lefschetz number for a functor from a finite acyclic category to itself and we prove a Lefschetz fixed-object theorem and a Lefschetz fixed-morphism theorem. In order to do so, we use the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Samuel Castelo-Mourelle , Enrique Macías-Virgós , David Mosquera-Lois

We prove two general factorization theorems for fixed-point invariants of fibrations: one for the Lefschetz number and one for the Reidemeister trace. These theorems imply the familiar multiplicativity results for the Lefschetz and Nielsen…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

We show that in any symmetric monoidal category, if a weight for colimits is absolute, then the resulting colimit of any diagram of dualizable objects is again dualizable. Moreover, in this case, if an endomorphism of the colimit is induced…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

While not obvious from its initial motivation in linear algebra, there are many context where iterated traces can be defined. In this paper we prove a very general theorem about iterated 2-categorical traces. We show that many…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Jonathan A. Campbell , Kate Ponto

We compute the trace of an endomorphism in equivariant bivariant K-theory for a compact group G in several ways: geometrically using geometric correspondences, algebraically using localisation, and as a Hattori-Stallings trace. This results…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Ivo Dell'Ambrogio , Heath Emerson , Ralf Meyer

A variant of the trace in a monoidal category is given in the setting of closed monoidal derivators, which is applicable to endomorphisms of fiberwise dualizable objects. Functoriality of this trace is established. As an application, an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Martin Gallauer

We introduce a theory of integration with respect to the fixed point index, offering a substantial improvement over previous approaches based on the Lefschetz number. This framework eliminates several restrictive assumptions -- such as the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Jesús A. Álvarez López , Alejandro O. Majadas-Moure , David Mosquera-Lois

The main result of this paper is the construction of a trace and a trace pairing for endomorphisms satisfying suitable conditions in a monoidal category. This construction is a common generalization of the trace for endomorphisms of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Stephan Stolz , Peter Teichner

We obtain an equivariant index theorem, or Lefschetz fixed-point formula, for isometries from complete Riemannian manifolds to themselves. The fixed-point set of such an isometry may be noncompact. We build on techniques developed by Roe.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Peter Hochs

We prove a relative Lefschetz-Verdier theorem for locally acyclic objects over a Noetherian base scheme. This is done by studying duals and traces in the symmetric monoidal $2$-category of cohomological correspondences. We show that local…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Qing Lu , Weizhe Zheng

We study an invariant, the secondary trace, attached to two commuting endomorphisms of a 2-dualizable object in a symmetric monoidal higher category. We establish a secondary trace formula which encodes the natural symmetries of this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-04 David Ben-Zvi , David Nadler

Given a symmetric monoidal $(\infty,2)$-category $\mathscr E$ we promote the trace construction to a functor. We then apply this formalism to the case when $\mathscr{E}$ is the $(\infty,2)$-category of $k$-linear presentable categories…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Grigory Kondyrev , Artem Prikhodko

We show that the combinatorial Lefschetz number is a topological invariant. This is an important result in itself; in order to point it out, we will also work here several relevant consequences in different directions. The first of them is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Jesús A. Álvarez López , Alejandro O. Majadas-Moure

The classical Lefschetz fixed point theorem states that the number of fixed points, counted with multiplicity $\pm 1$, of a smooth map $f$ from a manifold $M$ to itself can be calculated as the alternating sum $\sum (-1)^k \textrm{ tr }…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Loring W. Tu
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