Glover–Homer conjecture for real and complex generalized flag manifolds

Let n1,,nkn_1,\ldots,n_k be distinct positive integers, let n=n1++nkn=n_1+\cdots+n_k, and for F{R,C}\mathbb{F}\in\{\mathbb{R},\mathbb{C}\} define

FM(n1,,nk)=UF(n)UF(n1)××UF(nk),\mathbb{F}M(n_1,\ldots,n_k)=\frac{U_{\mathbb{F}}(n)}{U_{\mathbb{F}}(n_1)\times\cdots\times U_{\mathbb{F}}(n_k)},

where UR(n)=O(n)U_{\mathbb{R}}(n)=O(n) and UC(n)=U(n)U_{\mathbb{C}}(n)=U(n). The fixed point property (f.p.p.) means that every selfmap has a fixed point. Glover–Homer's real–complex conjecture. If at most one of n1,,nkn_1,\ldots,n_k is odd, then FM(n1,,nk)\mathbb{F}M(n_1,\ldots,n_k) has the f.p.p., for F=R\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{R} and F=C\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{C}. The conjecture proposes sufficiency for the parity condition accompanying the known necessary distinctness condition. The supplied source states that projective spaces and a family of complex flag manifolds were already known cases, but gives no proof or resolution of the full assertion.

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Thais Monis, Northon Penteado, Sergio Ura and Peter Wong, “A note on nontrivial intersection for selfmaps of complex Grassmann manifolds”, arXiv:1705.10571 (2017).

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