« 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}.