Fixed point free homeomorphisms of the complex plane

Abstract

Our purpose in this article is to prove that the group $H({\bf C})$ of homeomorphisms of the complex plane ${\bf C}$ is a metric group equipped with the metric induced by uniform convergence of homeomorphisms and their inverses on compacts and the set $$\left\{ h \in H({\bf C}) : ( \forall z \in {\bf C} )( h(z) \neq z ) \right\} $$ of fixed point free homeomorphisms of the complex plane is a conjugacy invariant dense $G_{\delta }$ subset of $H({\bf C})$.