Tverberg’s Theorem at 50: Extensions and Counterexamples

We describe how a powerful new “constraint method” yields many different extensions of the topological version of Tverberg’s 1966 Theorem in the prime power case— and how the same method also was instrumental in the recent spectacular construction of counterexamples for the general case. © 2016. All rights reserved.

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