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The fixed point property in every weak homotopy type
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 138, Number 5, October 2016
- pp. 1425-1438
- 10.1353/ajm.2016.0042
- Article
- Additional Information
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, that is, every continuous map $X\to X$ has a fixed point. 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.