Rationally acyclic compact polyhedron has fixed-point property

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Statement

Suppose is a topological space that is a rationally acyclic compact polyhedron (where polyhedron means it arises as the geometric realization of a simplicial complex, which in this case would have a finite set of vertices because of compactness). Then, has the Fixed-point property (?): any continuous map from to itself has a fixed point.

Related facts

Facts used

  1. Lefschetz fixed-point theorem