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Common fixed point problem
- ... that in 1967, two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture?
- Source: "The purpose of this paper is to answer Dyer's question in the negative by the construction of a pair of commuting functions which have no fixed point in common. [...] This paper is a condensation of the author's 1967 doctoral dissertation", from a paper by Boyce . "It has been conjectured that any two continuous functions f, g mapping the closed unit interval into itself which commute under composition [...] must have a common fixed point [...] Chapter 2 defines a pair of functions which show that the conjecture is false", from Huneke's 1967 PhD dissertation.
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- Comment: If the reviewer doesn't have ProQuest access, I can provide a copy of Huneke's dissertation over email.
Created by WillisBlackburn (talk).
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jlwoodwa (talk) 19:15, 16 October 2024 (UTC).