Paper 3, Section II, F

Topics in Analysis
Part II, 2012

State Brouwer's fixed point theorem on the plane, and also an equivalent version of it concerning continuous retractions. Prove the equivalence of the two statements.

Let f:R2R2f: \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{2} be a continuous map with the property that f(x)1|f(x)| \leqslant 1 whenever x=1|x|=1. Show that ff has a fixed point. [Hint. Compose ff with the map that sends xx to the nearest point to xx inside the closed unit disc.]