Using volume to prove Sperner's Lemma

Andrew McLennan; Rabee Tourky

doi:10.1007/s00199-007-0257-0

Using volume to prove Sperner's Lemma

Andrew McLennan, Rabee Tourky^*

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We provide a novel proof of Sperner's Lemma that is intuitive and elementary if certain simple properties of Lebesgue measure are known.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	593-597
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economic Theory
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-007-0257-0
Publication status	Published - Jun 2008
Externally published	Yes

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