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CONNECTIVITY PROPERTIES FOR SUBSPACES OF FUNCTION SPACES DETERMINED BY FIXED POINTS DACIBERG L. GONC¸ ALVES AND MICHAEL R. KELLY Received 31 October 2001 We study the topology of a subspace of the function space of continuous self- mappings of a given manifold: the subspace determined by maps having the least number of fixed points in its homotopy class. In the case that the manifold is a closed disk of finite dimension, we prove that this subspace is both globally and locally path connected. We also prove this result when the manifold is a sphere of dimension 1, 3, or 7. 1. Introduction Let X be a topological space and let C(X ) denote the space of continuous self- maps of X with the compact-open topology. The purpose of this paper is to study the topological properties of the subspace of C(X ) where membership is characterized by having the least number of fixed points in a given homotopy class. That is, given f : X → X , we consider the subspace Cmin (X, f ) = g ∼ f |#Fix(g ) = MF [f ] , (1.1) where MF [·] denotes the least number of fixed points possible among all maps in the given homotopy class. It is of interest to understand the topology of such spaces. In this paper, we only consider the elementary connectedness properties of Cmin (X, f ): path con- nectedness and local path connectedness. Path connectedness can be reformulated as a 1-parameter problem in fixed- point theory. That is, given two homotopic maps each having the minimal num- ber of fixed points, we ask about the existence of a homotopy such that each level map has the same property. For local path connectedness, we ask for small ho- motopies joining two sufficiently close maps. Copyright © 2003 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis 2003:2 (2003) 121–128 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 55M20, 58C30, 54H25 URL: /10.1155/S108