(n,m)-fold covers of spheres

DOI10.1134/S0081543815010150MaRDI QIDQ492220zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Birgit Vogtenhuber, Imre Bárány, R. Fabila-Monroy

Publication date 20 August 2015

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0056

zbMATH Keywords

covering\(d\)-dimensional sphereantipodal points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Abstract: A well known consequence of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem is that if the $d$-dimensional sphere $S^d$ is covered with less than $d+2$ open sets, then there is a set containing a pair of antipodal points. In this paper we provide lower and upper bounds on the minimum number of open sets, not containing a pair of antipodal points, needed to cover the $d$-dimensional sphere $n$ times, with the additional property that the northern hemisphere is covered $m>n$ times. We prove that if the open northern hemisphere is to be covered $m$ times then at least $lceilfracd-12ceil+n+m$ and at most $d+n+m$ sets are needed. For the case of $n=1$ and $dge2$, this number is equal to $d+2$ if $mlelfloorfracd2floor+1$ and equal to $lfloorfracd-12floor+2+m$ if $m>lfloorfracd2floor+1$. If the closed northern hemisphere is to be covered $m$ times then $d+2m-1$ sets are needed, this number is also sufficient. We also present results on a related problem of independent interest. We prove that if $S^d$ is covered $n$ times with open sets, not containing a pair of antipodal points, then there exists a point that is covered at least $lceilfracd2ceil+n$ times. Furthermore, we show that there are covers in which no point is covered more than $n+d$ times.

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