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Enumerative combinatorics, graph theory, order theory, posets, matroids, designs and other discrete structures. It also includes algebraic, analytic and probabilistic combinatorics.
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The Discrete Hairy-Ball Theorem
This is in response to Yakov’s request to see a proof that does not rely on the continuous Hairy Ball Theorem.
A ‘legal’ configuration has to satisfy the compatibility requirement appearing in the …
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A problem on chains of squares — can one find an easy combinatorial proof?
Consider the unit square $ S = [0,1] \times [0,1] $. For each $ n \in \mathbb{N} $, we can tessellate $ S $ by the collection
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\left[ \frac{i}{n},\frac{i + 1}{n} \right] \times
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