Evenly distributed subsets of \(S^ n\) and a combinatorial application

DOI10.2140/pjm.1982.98.323zbMath0488.55002OpenAlexW2036224705MaRDI QIDQ1166154

Ky Fan

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1982.98.323

zbMATH Keywords

antipodal set of a subset of the n-sphereantipodal theorem of Lusternik-Schnirelmann-Borsukevenly distributed subsetsfamily of subsets of a finite set which have exactly k elementspartitioning a family of subsets into subfamilies of subsets such that no two sets in a subfamily are disjoint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

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