When Soap Bubbles Collide

DOI10.1080/00029890.2007.11920420MaRDI QIDQ3606602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin Adams, Frank Morgan, John M. Sullivan

Publication date 26 February 2009

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

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

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)

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.

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