The LSB Theorem Implies the KKM Lemma

DOI10.1080/00029890.2007.11920401MaRDI QIDQ3595152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gwen Spencer, Francis Edward Su

Publication date 10 August 2007

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409092

zbMATH Keywords

KKM LemmaLusternik-Schnirelmann-Borsuk theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

Abstract: We prove the lemma of Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz as a consequence of the Lusternik-Schnirelman-Borsuk theorem.

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