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Dold indices and symmetric powers

Algebraic Topology 2025-03-19 v1

Abstract

Results of Macdonald and Dold from the 1960s and '70s expressing the Lefschetz numbers of symmetric powers of a self-map of a compact ENR in terms of the Lefschetz numbers of iterates of the map are extended using the notion of a Lefschetz-polynomial functor. Configuration spaces and Borsuk-Ulam symmetric products, as well as symmetric powers, are treated as examples of the general method.

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@article{arxiv.2503.14039,
  title  = {Dold indices and symmetric powers},
  author = {M. C. Crabb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.14039},
  year   = {2025}
}
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