By Jiří Matoušek (auth.)
ISBN-10: 3540003622
ISBN-13: 9783540003625
ISBN-10: 3540766499
ISBN-13: 9783540766490
"The "Kneser conjecture" -- posed via Martin Kneser in 1955 within the Jahresbericht der DMV -- is an innocent-looking challenge approximately partitioning the k-subsets of an n-set into intersecting subfamilies. Its outstanding answer by means of L. Lovász featured an unforeseen use of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, that's, of a surely topological end result approximately non-stop antipodal maps of spheres.
Matousek's vigorous little textbook now exhibits that Lovász' perception in addition to appealing paintings of many others (such as Vrecica and Zivaljevic, and Sarkaria) have unfolded an exhilarating sector of arithmetic that connects combinatorics, graph concept, algebraic topology and discrete geometry. What looked like an inventive trick in 1978 now offers itself for instance of the "test set paradigm": to build configuration areas for combinatorial difficulties such that coloring, occurrence or transversal difficulties can be translated into the (non-)existence of appropriate equivariant maps.
The brilliant account of this zone and its ramifications through Matousek is an exhilarating, a coherent account of this quarter of topological combinatorics. It includes a number of mathematical gemstones written with a large view of the topic and nonetheless with loving take care of info. steered studying! […]"
Günter M.Ziegler (Berlin)
Zbl. MATH quantity 1060 Productions-no.: 05001
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We begin by noting that if h: Rn+1 → Rn is an affine map, then h−1 (0) either is empty, or it is an affine subspace of dimension at least 1. Now let σ be an (n+1)-dimensional simplex and h an affine map σ → Rn . We say that h is generic if h−1 (0) intersects no face of σ of dimension smaller than n. In such case, h−1 (0) either is empty, or it is a segment lying in the interior of σ, with endpoints lying in the interior of two (distinct) n-faces of σ: σ h−1 (0) If we represent an affine map h: σ → Rn by the (n+2)-tuple of values at the vertices of σ, all such maps constitute a real vector space of dimension n(n+2).
If all coordinates of y are nonzero, then both x and −x lie in Fn+1 . (LS-c) =⇒ (BU2a) We need an auxiliary result: There exists a covering of S n−1 by closed sets F1 , . . , Fn+1 such that no Fi contains a pair of antipodal points (to see this, we consider an n-simplex in Rn containing 0 in its interior, and we project the facets centrally from 0 on S n−1 ). Then if a continuous antipodal mapping f : S n → S n−1 existed, the sets f −1 (F1 ), . . , f −1 (Fn+1 ) would contradict (LS-c). (LS-c) =⇒ (LS-o) follows from the fact that for every open cover U1 , .
The proof shown above follows Freund and Todd [FT81]. They were aiming at an algorithmic proof. Such algorithms are of great interest and have actually been used for numeric computation of zeros of functions. ∗ (A quantitative metric version of the Borsuk–Ulam theorem; Dubins and Schwarz [DS81]) (a) Let δ(n) = 2(n+1)/n denote the edge length of a regular simplex inscribed in the unit ball B n . Prove that any simplex that contains 0 and has all vertices on S n−1 has an edge of length at least δ(n).
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