English
Related papers

Related papers: Reflections in a cup of coffee

200 papers

Brouwer's fixed point theorem states that any continuous function from a closed $n$-dimensional ball to itself has a fixed point. In 1961, Klee showed that if such a function has discontinuities that are bounded, then it has a point that is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Henry Adams , Florian Frick

Brouwer's fixed point theorem from 1911 is a basic result in topology - with a wealth of combinatorial and geometric consequences. In these lecture notes we present some of them, related to the game of HEX and to the piercing of multiple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Anders Björner , Jiří Matoušek , Günter M. Ziegler

The classical Brouwer fixed point theorem states that in R^d every continuous function from a convex, compact set on itself has a fixed point. For an arbitrary probability space, let L^0 = L^0 (\Omega, A,P) be the set of random variables.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Samuel Drapeau , Martin Karliczek , Michael Kupper , Martin Streckfuß

We study the existence of fixed points for continuous maps $f$ from an $n$-ball $X$ in $\mathbb R^n$ to $\mathbb R^n$ with $n\geq 1$. We show that $f$ has a fixed point if, for some absolute retract $Y\subset\partial X$, $f(Y)\subset X$ and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Jiehua Mai , Enhui Shi , Kesong Yan , Fanping Zeng

One of the conclusions of Browder (1960) is a parametric version of Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem, stating that for every continuous function $f : ([0,1] \times X) \to X$, where $X$ is a simplex in a Euclidean space, the set of fixed points…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Eilon Solan , Omri N. Solan

We present a solution of Exercise 1.2.1 of [2] which yields a short new proof of a key step in one of proofs of Brouwer's fixed point theorem, 1910. A few people asked the author about the details of the solution and they might be…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 N. V. Krylov

We present a constructive proof of Brouwer's fixed point theorem for uniformly continuous and sequentially locally non-constant functions based on the existence of approximate fixed points. And we will show that Brouwer's fixed point…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Yasuhito Tanaka

A parametric version of Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem, which is proven using the fixed-point index, states that for every continuous mapping $f : (X \times Y) \to Y$, where $X$ is nonempty, compact, and connected subset of a Hausdorff…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Eilon Solan , Omri Nisan Solan

A $1$-Lipschitz map $f$ from a convex compact set to itself has fixed points. This consequence of Brouwer's or Schauder's fixed point theorem has more elementary proofs by approximating $f$ by $\lambda$-contractions, $f_\lambda$. We study…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Maxime Zavidovique

Let X and Y be compact, simply connected and locally connected subsets of R^2, and let f : X -> Y be a homeomorphism isotopic to the identity on X. Generalizing Brouwer's plane translation theorem for self-maps of the plane, we prove that f…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Georg Ostrovski

We prove three theorems giving fixed points for orientation preserving homeomorphisms of the plane following forgotten results of Brouwer.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Lucien Guillou

Homotopy Brouwer theory is a tool to study the dynamics of surface homeomorphisms. We introduce and illustrate the main objects of homotopy Brouwer theory, and provide a proof of Handel's fixed point theorem. These are the notes of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Frédéric Le Roux

The Brouwer fixed point theorem says that any continuous function from disc to itself has a fixed point. By using simple geometrical technique we have generalized the result in manifold and proved that any continuous function on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Absos Ali Shaikh , Chandan Kumar Mondal

More than a century ago, L. E. J. Brouwer proved a famous theorem, which says that any orientation preserving homeomorphism of the plane having a periodic point must have a fixed point. In recent years, there are still some authors giving…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Jiehua Mai , Kesong Yan , Fanping Zeng

Michael Handel proved in [7] the existence of a fixed point for an orientation preserving homeomorphism of the open unit disk that can be extended to the closed disk, provided that it has points whose orbits form an oriented cycle of links…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Juliana Xavier

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

We combine Homotopy Type Theory with axiomatic cohesion, expressing the latter internally with a version of "adjoint logic" in which the discretization and codiscretization modalities are characterized using a judgmental formalism of "crisp…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Michael Shulman

It is investigated in what sense the Brouwer fixed point theorem may be viewed as a corollary of the Lawvere fixed point theorem. A suitable generalisation of the Lawvere fixed point theorem is found and a means is identified by which the…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Rupert McCallum

We show that a continuous map or a continuous flow on $\R^{n}$ with a certain recurrence relation must have a fixed point. Specifically, if there is a compact set W with the property that the forward orbit of every point in $\R^{n}$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Richeson , Jim Wiseman

We give a remarkably elementary proof of the Brouwer fixed point theorem. The proof is verifiable for most of the mathematicians.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Yukio Takeuchi , Tomonari Suzuki
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›