{ "id": "2302.14492", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-02-28T11:19:25.000Z", "updated": "2023-02-28T11:19:25.000Z", "title": "On covering dimension and sections of vector bundles", "authors": [ "M. C. Crabb" ], "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "An elementary result in point-set topology is used, with knowledge of the mod $2$ cohomology of real projective spaces, to establish classical results of Lebesgue and Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz, as well as the topological central point theorem of Karasev, which is applied to deduce results of Helly-Lov\\'asz, B\\'ar\\'any and Tverberg", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-02-28T11:19:25.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "55R25", "54F45", "55M10", "55R40", "55M30" ], "keywords": [ "vector bundles", "covering dimension", "topological central point theorem", "point-set topology", "elementary result" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }