Paper 2, Section II,

Topics in Analysis
Part II, 2015

State and prove Sperner's lemma concerning the colouring of triangles.

Deduce a theorem, to be stated clearly, on retractions to the boundary of a disc.

State Brouwer's fixed point theorem for a disc and sketch a proof of it.

Let g:R2R2g: \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{2} be a continuous function such that for some K>0K>0 we have g(x)xK\|g(x)-x\| \leqslant K for all xR2x \in \mathbb{R}^{2}. Show that gg is surjective.