I'm trying to show that they're equivalent statements:
1) $1_{S^1}$ is not homotopic to a constant map.
2) $S^1$ is not a retract of $D^2$ ($D^2$ is the closed unit ball).
3) Every continuous map $f:D^2\to D^2$ has a fixed point.
1)$\to$2) I suppose the opposite, then there exists $r:D^2\to S^1$ continuous such that $r(x)=x$ for every $x\in S^1$. How can we show that $1_{S^1}$ is homotopic to a constant?
2)$\to$3) I suppose that there exists $f:D^2\to D^2$ such that $f(x)\neq x$ for every $x\in D^2$, but I don't know how to prove that $S^1$ would be a retract of $D$.
3)$\to$1) Of course I tried to suppose that $1_{S^1}$ is homotopic to a constant, and show a map without fixed points.
Any hint? Thanks.
For the equivalence $1\iff 2$:
A map $f:X\to Y$ is nullhomotopic iff there is a map $h:CX\to Y$ extending $f$. Now take $f=\text{id}_{S^1}$ and use that the cone $CS^1$ over $S^1$ is homeomorphic to the ball $D^2$.
For $2\iff 3$:
Suppose there is a fixed-point free $h$ on $D^2$. Then we can define a map $r:D^2→S^1$ by letting $r(x)$ be the point of $S^1$ where the ray starting at $h(x)$ and passing through $x$ leaves $D^2$. One can give a precise formula for $r(x)$, but it should be intuitively clear that $r$ is continuous. But this $r$ would be a retraction.
Conversely, a retraction $D^2\to S^1$ has $S^1$ as its set of fixed-points. Can you see how to compose it with a map on $S^1$ to make it fixed-point free ?