The discrete yet ubiquitous theorems of Carathéodory, Helly, Sperner, Tucker, and Tverberg

نویسندگان

  • Jesús A. De Loera
  • Xavier Goaoc
  • Frédéric Meunier
  • Nabil H. Mustafa
چکیده

We discuss five discrete results: the lemmas of Sperner and Tucker from combinatorial topology and the theorems of Carathéodory, Helly, and Tverberg from combinatorial geometry. We explore their connections and emphasize their broad impact in application areas such as game theory, graph theory, mathematical optimization, computational geometry, etc.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1706.05975  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017