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by contravariant 1058 days ago
Brouwer's fixed point theorem only applies to compact convex sets.

Infinite lines don't work, as they are not compact.

Similarly a circle would not work as it is not convex (you're close with your example, you just need to glue together the endpoints to turn it into a circle and make the map continuous).

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The line example is what I thought and then I looked the theorem up in Wikipedia. Thanks for pointing this out.