Paper 1, Section I, 2F2 F

Topics in Analysis | Part II, 2018

State and prove Sperner's lemma concerning colourings of points in a triangular grid.

Suppose that △\triangle is a non-degenerate closed triangle with closed edges α1,α2\alpha_{1}, \alpha_{2} and α3\alpha_{3}. Show that we cannot find closed sets AjA_{j} with Aj⊇αjA_{j} \supseteq \alpha_{j}, for j=1,2,3j=1,2,3, such that

⋃j=13Aj=Δ, but ⋂j=13Aj=∅\bigcup_{j=1}^{3} A_{j}=\Delta, \text { but } \bigcap_{j=1}^{3} A_{j}=\emptyset

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