Lefschetz fixed-point theorem

English

Etymology

Named after Solomon Lefschetz, who first stated it in 1926.

Proper noun

the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem

  1. (mathematics) A formula that counts the fixed points of a continuous mapping from a compact topological space X to itself by means of traces of the induced mappings on the homology groups of X.
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