A note on nontrivial intersection for selfmaps of complex Grassmann manifolds

Abstract

Let $G(k,n)$ be the complex Grassmann manifold of $k$-planes in ${\mathbb{C}}^{k+n}$. In this note, we show that for $1<k<n$ and for any selfmap $f:G(k,n)\to G(k,n)$, there exists a $k$-plane $V^k\in G(k,n)$ such that $f(V^k)\cap V^k\ne \{0\}$.

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