English Explanatory Dictionary

Sperner's lemma

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A combinatorial analog of the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, stating that every Sperner coloring of a triangulation of an n-dimensional simplex contains a cell colored with a complete set of colors.

Word forms

Sperner's lemma

Etymology

The initial result of this kind was proved by Emanuel Sperner.

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