A model for the universal space for proper actions of a hyperbolic group.
We prove an existence and multiplicity result for solutions of a nonlinear Urysohn type equation (2.14) by use of the Nielsen and degree theory in an annulus in the function space.
We define an isotopy invariant of embeddings of manifolds into Euclidean space. This invariant together with the α-invariant of Haefliger-Wu is complete in the dimension range where the α-invariant could be incomplete. We also define parametric connected sum of certain embeddings (analogous to surgery). This allows us to obtain new completeness results for the α-invariant and the following estimation of isotopy classes of embeddings. In the piecewise-linear category, for a (3n-2m+2)-connected...
Nielsen theory, originally developed as a homotopy-theoretic approach to fixed point theory, has been translated and extended to various other problems, such as the study of periodic points, coincidence points and roots. In this paper, the techniques of Nielsen theory are applied to the study of intersections of maps. A Nielsen-type number, the Nielsen intersection number NI(f,g), is introduced, and shown to have many of the properties analogous to those of the Nielsen fixed point number. In particular,...
E. Pannwitz showed in 1952 that for any n ≥ 2, there exist continuous maps φ:Sⁿ→ Sⁿ and f:Sⁿ→ ℝ² such that f(x) ≠ f(φ(x)) for any x∈ Sⁿ. We prove that, under certain conditions, given continuous maps ψ,φ:X→ X and f:X→ ℝ², although the existence of a point x∈ X such that f(ψ(x)) = f(φ(x)) cannot always be assured, it is possible to establish an interesting relation between the points f(φ ψ(x)), f(φ²(x)) and f(ψ²(x)) when f(φ(x)) ≠ f(ψ(x)) for any x∈ X, and a non-standard version of the Borsuk-Ulam...
This paper studies the relationship between the sections and the Chern or Pontrjagin classes of a vector bundle by the theory of connection. Our results are natural generalizations of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.