The topological Hopf brushing conjecture
The topological Hopf brushing conjecture
A brushing is a flow without fixed points. A closed topological manifold is a compact manifold in the topological category, and its Euler characteristic is denoted .
Topological Hopf brushing conjecture. A closed topological manifold with vanishing Euler characteristic admits a brushing.
This is presented as a topological analogue of Hopf's smooth theorem. Existing path-field results do not supply the required integration into a flow, so the assertion remains hypothetical in the source.
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Primary source
Alexandre Gabard and David Gauld, “Dynamics of non-metric manifolds”, arXiv:1102.5684 (2011).
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