Surfaces of infinite-type are non-Hopfian
Abstract
We show that finite-type surfaces are characterized by a topological analog of the Hopf property. Namely, an oriented surface is of finite-type if and only if every proper map f of degree one is homotopic to a homeomorphism.
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