Recent advances in the Lefschetz fixed point theory for multivalued mappings

Abstract

In 1923 S. Lefschetz proved the famous fixed point theorem which is now known as the Lefschetz fixed point theorem (comp. [5], [9], [20], [21]. The multivalued case was considered for the first time in 1946 by S. Eilenberg and D. Montgomery ([10]). They proved the Lefschetz fixed point theorem for acyclic mappings of compact ANR-spaces (absolute neighborhood retracts (see [4] or [13]) using Vietoris mapping theorem (see [4], [13], [16]) as the main tool. In 1970 Eilenberg, Montgomery's result was generalized for acyclic mappings of complete ANR-s (see [17]). Next, a class of admissible multivalued mappings was introduced ([13] or [16]). Note that the class of admissible mappings is quite large and contains as a special case not only acyclic mappings but also infinite compositions of acyclic mappings. For this class of multivalued mappings several versions of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem were proved (comp. [11], [13]-15], [18], [19], [27]). In 1982 G. Skordev and W. Siegberg ([26]) introduced the class of multivalued mappings so-called now (1 − n)-acyclic mappings. Note that the class (1−n)-acyclic mappings contain as a special case n-valued mappings considered in [6], [12], [28]. We recommend [8] for the most important results connected with (1 − n)-acyclic mappings. Finally, the Lefschetz fixed point theorem was considered for spheric mappings (comp. [3], [2], [7], [23]) and for random multivalued mappings (comp. [1], [2], [13]). Let us remark that the main classes of spaces for which the Lefschetz fixed point theorem was formulated are the class of ANR-spaces ([4]) and MANR-spaces (multi absolute neighborhood retracts (see [27]). The aim of this paper is to recall the most important results concerning the Lefschetz fixed point theorem for multivalued mappings and to prove new versions of this theorem mainly for AANR-spaces (approximative absolute neighborhood retracts (see [4] or [13]) and for MANR-s. We believe that this article will be useful for analysts applying topological fixed point theory for multivalued mappings in nonlinear analysis, especially in differential inclusions.

Keywords

• multivalued mappings
• absolute retracts
• admissible mappigns
• (1 − n)-acyclic mappings
• spheric and random mappings
• Lefschetz number.
• fixed point problem

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