When Soap Bubbles Collide

DOI10.1080/00029890.2007.11920420zbMATH Open1183.52015arXivmath/0412020OpenAlexW1582377196MaRDI QIDQ3606602FDOQ3606602

Authors: Colin Adams, Frank Morgan, John M. Sullivan 

Publication date: 26 February 2009

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

Abstract: Can you fill R^n with a froth of "soap bubbles" that meet at most n at a time? Not if they have bounded diameter, as follows from Lebesgue's Covering Theorem. We provide some related results and conjectures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412020

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zbMATH Keywords

decomposition of spaceLyusternik-Shnirelman categoryLebesgue's covering theoremsoap bubble froth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete geometry (52C99) Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

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