An Elementary Proof of the No-Retraction Theorem

DOI10.2307/2320550zbMath0598.26027OpenAlexW4235368273MaRDI QIDQ3731936

Yakar Kannai

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2320550

zbMATH Keywords

no-retraction theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20) Functions of several variables (26B99)

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