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Fixed Point Theorems for Plane Continua with Applications

Alexander M. Blokh University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Robbert J. Fokkink Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Netherlands
John C. Mayer University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Lex G. Oversteegen University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
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AMS Member Price: $55.20 Click above image for expanded view Fixed Point Theorems for Plane Continua with Applications Alexander M. Blokh University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL Robbert J. Fokkink Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Netherlands John C. Mayer University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL Lex G. Oversteegen University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL E. D. Tymchatyn University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada Available Formats:  Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4704-1004-9 Product Code: MEMO/224/1053.E  List Price:$69.00 MAA Member Price: $62.10 AMS Member Price:$55.20
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Volume: 2242013; 97 pp
MSC: Primary 37; 54;

In this memoir the authors present proofs of basic results, including those developed so far by Harold Bell, for the plane fixed point problem: Does every map of a non-separating plane continuum have a fixed point? Some of these results had been announced much earlier by Bell but without accessible proofs. The authors define the concept of the variation of a map on a simple closed curve and relate it to the index of the map on that curve: Index = Variation + 1. A prime end theory is developed through hyperbolic chords in maximal round balls contained in the complement of a non-separating plane continuum $X$. They define the concept of an outchannel for a fixed point free map which carries the boundary of $X$ minimally into itself and prove that such a map has a unique outchannel, and that outchannel must have variation $-1$. Also Bell's Linchpin Theorem for a foliation of a simply connected domain, by closed convex subsets, is extended to arbitrary domains in the sphere.

The authors introduce the notion of an oriented map of the plane and show that the perfect oriented maps of the plane coincide with confluent (that is composition of monotone and open) perfect maps of the plane. A fixed point theorem for positively oriented, perfect maps of the plane is obtained. This generalizes results announced by Bell in 1982.

• Chapters
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 1. Basic Theory
• 2. Preliminaries and outline of Part 1
• 3. Tools
• 4. Partitions of domains in the sphere
• 2. Applications of Basic Theory
• 5. Description of main results of Part 2
• 6. Outchannels and their properties
• 7. Fixed points
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Volume: 2242013; 97 pp
MSC: Primary 37; 54;

In this memoir the authors present proofs of basic results, including those developed so far by Harold Bell, for the plane fixed point problem: Does every map of a non-separating plane continuum have a fixed point? Some of these results had been announced much earlier by Bell but without accessible proofs. The authors define the concept of the variation of a map on a simple closed curve and relate it to the index of the map on that curve: Index = Variation + 1. A prime end theory is developed through hyperbolic chords in maximal round balls contained in the complement of a non-separating plane continuum $X$. They define the concept of an outchannel for a fixed point free map which carries the boundary of $X$ minimally into itself and prove that such a map has a unique outchannel, and that outchannel must have variation $-1$. Also Bell's Linchpin Theorem for a foliation of a simply connected domain, by closed convex subsets, is extended to arbitrary domains in the sphere.

The authors introduce the notion of an oriented map of the plane and show that the perfect oriented maps of the plane coincide with confluent (that is composition of monotone and open) perfect maps of the plane. A fixed point theorem for positively oriented, perfect maps of the plane is obtained. This generalizes results announced by Bell in 1982.

• Chapters
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 1. Basic Theory
• 2. Preliminaries and outline of Part 1
• 3. Tools
• 4. Partitions of domains in the sphere
• 2. Applications of Basic Theory
• 5. Description of main results of Part 2
• 6. Outchannels and their properties
• 7. Fixed points
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