Walking in circles

Noga Alon, Michal Feldman, Ariel D. Procaccia, Moshe Tennenholtz

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Abstract

Consider the unit circle S1 with distance function d measured along the circle. We show that for every selection of 2n points x1,⋯,xn,y1, ⋯,yn∈S1 there exists i∈1,⋯,n such that ∑k=1nd(xi,xk)≤∑k=1nd(xi,yk). We also discuss a game theoretic interpretation of this result.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3432-3435
Number of pages4
JournalDiscrete Mathematics
Volume310
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Dec 2010

Funding

FundersFunder number
Hermann Minkowski Minerva Center for Geometry
USA Israeli BSF
European Research Council
Israel Science Foundation1219/09
Tel Aviv University

    Keywords

    • Game theory
    • Geometry

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