Fixed point indices of equivariant maps and Möbius inversions.
Our main result states that every fixed-point free continuous self-map of ℝⁿ is colorable. This result can be reformulated as follows: A continuous map f: ℝⁿ → ℝⁿ is fixed-point free iff f̃: βℝⁿ → βℝⁿ is fixed-point free. We also obtain a generalization of this fact and present some examples