On the chromatic number of 2-dimensional spheres

DOI10.1007/S00454-023-00483-3MaRDI QIDQ6151024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Danila Cherkashin, Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Voronov

Publication date 9 February 2024

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08666

zbMATH Keywords

implicit function theoremBorsuk-Ulam theoremunit distance graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distance in graphs (05C12) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Distance geometry (51K99)

Abstract: In 1976 Simmons conjectured that every coloring of a 2-dimensional sphere of radius strictly greater than $1/2$ in three colors has a couple of monochromatic points at the distance 1 apart. We prove this conjecture.

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