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Title:
Cutting Cakes with Combinatorial Fixed Point Theorems

Speaker:
Kathryn Nyman

Abstract:
Sperner's Lemma, a combinatorial analogue to Brower's Fixed Point Theorem, guarantees a "fully-labeled cell" in any labeled triangulation of the n-simplex meeting suitable conditions. These fully-labeled cells provide crisp solutions to envy-free cake-cutting questions.  We look at equivalences between combinatorial results and topological fixed-point theorems, along with applications to fair division problems, including the division of multiple cakes and consensus halving.

Link:
https://www.msri.org/workshops/813/schedules/22809

Workshop:
MSRI- Introductory Workshop: Geometric and Topological Combinatorics