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Sperner's lemma

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Triangulate a triangle and label every vertex by 1, 2, or 3, forbidding label i on the side opposite vertex i. Then the number of small triangles carrying all three labels is odd, and in particular at least one such triangle exists. Counting edges whose endpoint labels are 1 and 2 proves the parity statement: boundary incidences are odd, while a small triangle has odd incidence exactly when it has all three labels.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2018 / ii / Paper 1 / 2F / Solution

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