On a problem of Erdös concerning a 3-coloring of the unit sphere

Autor: G. J. Simmons
Rok vydání: 1974
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Zdroj: Discrete Mathematics. 8(1):81-84
ISSN: 0012-365X
DOI: 10.1016/0012-365x(74)90112-5
Popis: A slight variation of a problem posed by P. Erdös asks: “Can the points on the unit sphere be colored with three colors so that every inscribed equilateral triangle of side √3 has a vertex of each color?”. We show that no such 3-coloring is possible.
Databáze: OpenAIRE