A RELATIVE NAIELSEN COINCIDENCE NUMBER FOR THE COMPLEMENT, I

Nielsen coincidence theory is concerned with the determinatin of a lower bound of the minimal number MC[f,g] of coincidence points for all maps in the homotopy class of a given map (f,g) : X $\to$ Y. The Nielsen Nielsen number $N_R(f,g)$ (similar to [9]) is introduced in [3], which is a lower bound for the number of coincidence points in the relative homotopy class of (f,g) and $N_R(f,g) \geq N(f,g)$.