Computation of Nielsen numbers for maps of closed surfaces

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 348, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3245-3266

  Davey, O ^a   Hart, E ^b,c   Trapp, K ^d  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

^d Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Lefschetz number; Nielsen fixed point theory; Topological fixed point theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344436367     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-96-01693-5     Document Type: Article

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