Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem
Fixed-point theorem for smooth manifolds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Atiyah–Bott formula.
In mathematics, the Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem, proven by Michael Atiyah and Raoul Bott in the 1960s, is a general form of the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem for smooth manifolds M, which uses an elliptic complex on M. This is a system of elliptic differential operators on vector bundles, generalizing the de Rham complex constructed from smooth differential forms which appears in the original Lefschetz fixed-point theorem.