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Matej Stehlik

Criticality in Sperner’s lemma
Jeudi, 26 Janvier, 2023 - 14:00
Résumé : 
Sperner’s lemma states that in any labelling of the vertices of a triangulation of a d-simplex with d+1 labels, such that each vertex of the d-simplex receives a distinct label and any vertex lying in a face of the d-simplex has the same label as one of the vertices of that face, there exists a rainbow facet (a facet whose vertices have pairwise distinct labels). Tibor Gallai proved (in a different but equivalent form) that for d=1 and d=2, we can pick any facet of the triangulation and find a labelling where that facet is the unique rainbow simplex. In this talk, I will show that this is not the case for higher dimensions, thereby giving a negative answer to a question of Gallai from 1969. The construction is based on the properties of a 4-polytope which had been used earlier to disprove a claim of Theodore Motzkin on neighbourly polytopes.
 
Joint work with Tomas Kaiser and Riste Skrekovski.
Institution de l'orateur : 
IRIF
Thème de recherche : 
Théorie spectrale et géométrie
Salle : 
4
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