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The chromatic number of space with forbidden regular simplex

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An explicit exponentially growing lower bound for the chromatic number of Euclidean space with forbidden regular simplex is constructed.

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Original Russian Text © A. A. Sagdeev, 2017, published in Matematicheskie Zametki, 2017, Vol. 102, No. 4, pp. 579–585.

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Sagdeev, A.A. The chromatic number of space with forbidden regular simplex. Math Notes 102, 541–546 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434617090267

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