The non-Hausdorff Brouwer fixed point conjecture

Let KK be a topological space equipped with maps K{}K\to\{\bullet\} lying in both indicated right-orthogonal classes: the class generated by the finite-space maps WV\mathsf{W}\to\mathsf{V} and V{}\mathsf{V}\to\{\bullet\}, and the double orthogonal of the maps between finite spaces of size less than 55 used to characterize proper maps. The non-Hausdorff Brouwer fixed point conjecture. Every endomorphism of KK has a fixed point. The assertion extends the Brouwer fixed point theorem beyond Hausdorff spaces; the paper proves it for separable metric spaces but leaves the general case open.

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Misha Gavrilovich, “Finite combinatorics implicit in the basic definitions of topology”, arXiv:2409.20464 (2024).

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