An index for Brouwer homeomorphisms and homotopy Brouwer theory
Abstract
We use the homotopy Brouwer theory of Handel to define a Poincar\'e index between two orbits for an orientation preserving fixed point free homeomorphism of the plane. Furthermore, we prove that this index is almost additive.
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