Seminar series
Date
Mon, 02 Dec 2013
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
C5
Speaker
Freddie Manners
The 'pyjama stripe' is the subset of the plane consisting of a vertical
strip of width epsilon about every integer x-coordinate. The 'pyjama
problem' asks whether finitely many rotations of the pyjama stripe about
the origin can cover the plane.
I'll attempt to outline a solution to this problem. Although not a lot
of this is particularly representative of techniques frequently used in
additive combinatorics, I'll try to flag up whenever this happens -- in
particular ideas about 'limit objects'.