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LeanPool.ClassificationOfSurfaces.Moise.Brouwer

Brouwer's fixed-point theorem for the plane disk #

This file derives Brouwer's fixed-point theorem for the closed unit disk in Plane from no_retraction_planeClosedUnitBall.

If a continuous self-map f of the disk had no fixed point, the ray starting at f x and passing through x would meet the unit sphere in a continuously varying point. The positive root of the resulting quadratic equation gives this intersection explicitly. On the unit sphere that root is 1, so the construction would be a retraction of the disk onto its boundary, contradicting no_retraction_planeClosedUnitBall.

The scale at which the ray from p through x meets the unit sphere. Its intended use is when p lies in the unit ball and p ≠ x.

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    Brouwer's fixed-point theorem for the closed unit disk in the Euclidean plane.