Digital Topological Properties of an Alignment of Fixed Point Sets

Sang-Eon Han
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Sang-Eon Han: Department of Mathematics Education, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-City Jeonbuk 54896, Korea

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 6, 1-18

Abstract: The present paper investigates digital topological properties of an alignment of fixed point sets which can play an important role in fixed point theory from the viewpoints of computational or digital topology. In digital topology-based fixed point theory, for a digital image ( X , k ) , let F ( X ) be the set of cardinalities of the fixed point sets of all k -continuous self-maps of ( X , k ) (see Definition 4). In this paper we call it an alignment of fixed point sets of ( X , k ) . Then we have the following unsolved problem. How many components are there in F ( X ) up to 2-connectedness? In particular, let C k n , l be a simple closed k -curve with l elements in Z n and X : = C k n , l 1 ∨ C k n , l 2 be a digital wedge of C k n , l 1 and C k n , l 2 in Z n . Then we need to explore both the number of components of F ( X ) up to digital 2-connectivity (see Definition 4) and perfectness of F ( X ) (see Definition 5). The present paper addresses these issues and, furthermore, solves several problems related to the main issues. Indeed, it turns out that the three models C 2 n n , 4 , C 3 n − 1 n , 4 , and C k n , 6 play important roles in studying these topics because the digital fundamental groups of them have strong relationships with alignments of fixed point sets of them. Moreover, we correct some errors stated by Boxer et al. in their recent work and improve them (see Remark 3). This approach can facilitate the studies of pure and applied topologies, digital geometry, mathematical morphology, and image processing and image classification in computer science. The present paper only deals with k -connected spaces in DTC . Moreover, we will mainly deal with a set X such that X ? ≥ 2 .

Keywords: digital image; digital wedge; normal adjacency; k-homotopy; k-contractibility; alignment; fixed point set; digital topology; fixed point property (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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