Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 34143, 20 pages
doi:10.1155/FPTA/2006/34143
A base-point-free definition of the Lefschetz invariant
Department of Mathematics, Fort Lewis College, Durango 81301, CO, USA
Received 30 November 2004; Accepted 21 July 2005
Copyright © 2006 Vesta Coufal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In classical Lefschetz-Nielsen theory, one defines the Lefschetz
invariant L(f) of an endomorphism f of a manifold M. The definition depends on the fundamental group of M, and hence on
choosing a base point ∗∈M and a base path from ∗ to f(∗). At times, it is inconvenient or impossible to make
these choices. In this paper, we use the fundamental groupoid to
define a base-point-free version of the Lefschetz invariant.