Covering dimension using toric varieties

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2014.08.006MaRDI QIDQ741415zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roman Karasev

Publication date 12 September 2014

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3437

zbMATH Keywords

covering dimensionKKM theoremLebesgue's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: In this paper we deduce the Lebesgue and the Knaster--Kuratowski--Mazurkiewicz theorems on the covering dimension, as well as their certain generalizations, from some simple facts of toric geometry. This provides a new point of view on this circle of results.

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