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20142023
most citedCounterexamples to the topological Tverberg conjecture

43 citations · 163 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

math.MG2023★ 1 cited

Gromov-Hausdorff distances, Borsuk-Ulam theorems, and Vietoris-Rips complexes

Henry Adams, Johnathan Bush, Nate Clause +13

We explore emerging relationships between the Gromov--Hausdorff distance, Borsuk--Ulam theorems, and Vietoris--Rips simplicial complexes. The Gromov--Hausdorff distance between two…

math.GT2022

Unit sphere fibrations in Euclidean space

Daniel Asimov, Florian Frick, Michael Harrison +1

We show that if an open set in can be fibered by unit -spheres, then , and if , then the spheres must be pairwise linked, and $n \in \left\…

math.CO2022

Random complexes with free involution

Florian Frick, Andrew Newman

We introduce a new model for random simplicial complexes which with high probability generates a complex that has a simply-connected double cover. Hence we develop a model for rand…

math.CO2022★ 3 cited

Transversal generalizations of hyperplane equipartitions

Florian Frick, Samuel Murray, Steven Simon +1

The classical Ham Sandwich theorem states that any point sets in can be simultaneously bisected by a single affine hyperplane. A generalization of Dolnikov asser…

math.MG2022

Vietoris thickenings and complexes have isomorphic homotopy groups

Henry Adams, Florian Frick, Žiga Virk

We study the relationship between metric thickenings and simplicial complexes associated to coverings of metric spaces. Let be a cover of a separable metric space …

math.CO2022

Colorful Words and d-Tverberg Complexes

Florian Frick, R. Amzi Jeffs

We give a complete combinatorial characterization of weakly -Tverberg complexes. These complexes record which intersection combinatorics of convex hulls necessarily arise in any…

math.CO2021

Vertex numbers of simplicial complexes with free abelian fundamental group

Florian Frick, Matt Superdock

We show that the minimum number of vertices of a simplicial complex with fundamental group is at most and at least . For the upper bound, we use…

math.GT2021

On inscribed trapezoids and affinely 3-regular maps

Florian Frick, Michael Harrison

We show that any embedding inscribes a trapezoid or maps three points to a line, where is the smallest power of satisfy…

math.CO2021★ 1 cited

Embedding dimensions of simplicial complexes on few vertices

Florian Frick, Mirabel Hu, Verity Scheel +1

We provide a simple characterization of simplicial complexes on few vertices that embed into the -sphere. Namely, a simplicial complex on vertices embeds into the -sphe…

math.GT2021

Coupled embeddability

Florian Frick, Michael Harrison

We introduce the notion of coupled embeddability, defined for maps on products of topological spaces. We use known results for nonsingular biskew and bilinear maps to generate simp…

math.GT2021

The topology of projective codes and the distribution of zeros of odd maps

Henry Adams, Johnathan Bush, Florian Frick

We show that the size of codes in projective space controls structural results for zeros of odd maps from spheres to Euclidean space. In fact, this relation is given through the to…

math.GT2020

Spaces of embeddings: Nonsingular bilinear maps, chirality, and their generalizations

Florian Frick, Michael Harrison

Given a space X we study the topology of the space of embeddings of X into through the combinatorics of triangulations of X. We give a simple combinatorial formula f…

math.CO2020★ 9 cited

The topological Tverberg problem beyond prime powers

Florian Frick, Pablo Soberón

Tverberg-type theory aims to establish sufficient conditions for a simplicial complex such that every continuous map maps points from pairwise d…

math.MG2020

What can you draw?

Florian Frick, Fei Peng

We address the problem of which planar sets can be drawn with a pencil and eraser. The pencil draws any union of black open unit disks in the plane . The eraser produ…

math.GT2019★ 12 cited

Metric Thickenings, Borsuk-Ulam Theorems, and Orbitopes

Henry Adams, Johnathan Bush, Florian Frick

Thickenings of a metric space capture local geometric properties of the space. Here we exhibit applications of lower bounding the topology of thickenings of the circle and more gen…

math.FA2019

A nonlinear Lazarev-Lieb theorem: -orthogonality via motion planning

Florian Frick, Matt Superdock

Lazarev and Lieb showed that finitely many integrable functions from the unit interval to can be simultaneously annihilated in the inner product by a smooth func…

math.AT2019

Borsuk-Ulam theorems for products of spheres and Stiefel manifolds revisited

Yu Hin Chan, Shujian Chen, Florian Frick +1

We give a different and possibly more accessible proof of a general Borsuk--Ulam theorem for a product of spheres, originally due to Ramos. That is, we show the non-existence of ce…

math.CO2018

Fair splittings by independent sets in sparse graphs

Alexander Black, Umur Cetin, Florian Frick +2

Given a partition of the vertex set of a graph, we are interested in finding multiple disjoint independent sets that contain the correct fr…

math.MG2018

Barycenters of points in polytope skeleta

Michael Gene Dobbins, Florian Frick

The first author showed that for a given point in an -polytope there are points in the -faces of , whose barycenter is . We show that we can increase the d…

math.MG2018

Splitting loops and necklaces: Variants of the square peg problem

Jai Aslam, Shujian Chen, Florian Frick +3

Toeplitz conjectured that any simple planar loop inscribes a square. Here we prove variants of Toeplitz' square peg problem. We prove Hadwiger's 1971 conjecture that any simple loo…

math.CO2018★ 2 cited

Neural codes, decidability, and a new local obstruction to convexity

Aaron Chen, Florian Frick, Anne Shiu

Given an intersection pattern of arbitrary sets in Euclidean space, is there an arrangement of convex open sets in Euclidean space that exhibits the same intersections? This questi…

math.CO2017

Chromatic numbers of stable Kneser hypergraphs via topological Tverberg-type theorems

Florian Frick

Kneser's 1955 conjecture -- proven by Lovász in 1978 -- asserts that in any partition of the -subsets of into parts, one part contains two disjoint…

math.CO2017

Colorful coverings of polytopes and piercing numbers of colorful d-intervals

Florian Frick, Shira Zerbib

We prove a common strengthening of Bárány's colorful Carathéodory theorem and the KKMS theorem. In fact, our main result is a colorful polytopal KKMS theorem, which extends a color…

math.MG2017★ 12 cited

Metric reconstruction via optimal transport

Michal Adamaszek, Henry Adams, Florian Frick

Given a sample of points in a metric space and a scale , the Vietoris-Rips simplicial complex is a standard construction to attempt to recover f…