Abstract: Brouwer’s fixed point theorem states that any continuous function from a compact convex space to itself has a fixed point. Roughgarden and Weinstein (FOCS 2016) initiated the study of fixed point computation in the two-player communication model, where each player gets a function from [0,1]^n to [0,1]^n , and their goal is to find an approximate fixed point of the composition of the two functions. They left it as an open question to show a lower bound of 2^{\Omega (n)} for the (randomized) communication complexity of this problem, in the rang...
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Topics: 
Combinatorics
Discrete mathematics