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arxiv: 1307.1722 · v1 · pith:I5ZCBXZMnew · submitted 2013-07-05 · 🧮 math.AT · math.CO

The fixed point property in every weak homotopy type

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The Brouwer fixed point theorem states that the disk $D^n$ has the fixed point property. More generally, by the Lefschetz fixed point theorem any compact ANR with trivial rational homology has the fixed point property. In this note we prove that for any connected compact CW-complex $K$ there exists a space $X$ weak homotopy equivalent to $K$ which has the fixed point property. The result is known to be false if we require $X$ to be a polyhedron. The space $X$ we construct is a non-Hausdorff space with finitely many points.

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