Nielsen numbers and pullbacks

Higher-order Nielsen Numbers

Suppose X , Y are manifolds, f ,g : X → Y are maps. The well-known coincidence problem studies the coincidence set C = {x : f (x) = g(x)}. The number m= dimX −dimY is called the codimension of the problem. More general is the preimage problem. For a map f : X → Z and a submanifold Y of Z, it studies the preimage set C = {x : f (x) ∈ Y}, and the codimension is m = dimX + dimY − dimZ. In case of ...

Estimating Nielsen Numbers on Infrasolvmanifolds

A well-known lower bound for the number of xed points of a self-map f : X ?! X is the Nielsen number N(f). Unfortunately, the Nielsen number is diicult to calculate. The Lefschetz number L(f), on the other hand, is readily computable, but does not give a lower bound for the number of xed points. In this paper, we investigate conditions on the space X which guarantee either N(f) = jL(f)j or N(f)...

NIELSEN NUMBERS OF n-VALUED FIBERMAPS

The Nielsen number for n-valued multimaps, defined by Schirmer, has been calculated only for the circle. A concept of n-valued fiber map on the total space of a fibration is introduced. A formula for the Nielsen numbers of n-valued fiber maps of fibrations over the circle reduces the calculation to the computation of Nielsen numbers of single-valued maps. If the fibration is orientable, the pro...

Estimating Nielsen Numbers on Wedge Product Spaces

A Nielsen theory for intersection numbers

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 introduce...