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Fixed point indices and manifolds with collars

Chen-Farng Benjamin1 and Daniel Henry Gottlieb2*

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2 Mathematics Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

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Fixed Point Theory and Applications 2006, 2006:87657 doi:10.1155/FPTA/2006/87657


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Received:7 December 2004
Revisions received:25 April 2005
Accepted:24 July 2005
Published:3 May 2006

© 2006 Benjamin and Gottlieb

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This paper concerns a formula which relates the Lefschetz number for a map to the fixed point index summed with the fixed point index of a derived map on part of the boundary of . Here is a compact manifold and is with a collar attached.

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