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Sperner's Lemma on Simplices, and some applications

October 18, 2023, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Location:

Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor

Rutgers University

Hill Center

Mathematics Department

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Caleb Fong, Rutgers University

Sperner's Lemma tells us that any 'good' colouring of the vertices of a triangulated simplex admits a rainbow-coloured subsimplex. In this talk, we will understand what this theorem says, and see some subset of  {proof in dimension 2, continuous/colourful analogues, applications to cake-cutting and rent division}.