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Loosely, Hairy ball theorem is about the derivative of a mapping at a single point in time. (Imagine slowly deforming/mixing the input configuration t to obtain the output configuration. Brouwer's theorem can be thought of as being about the integral of a continuous family of hairy balls over a time interval.

It's not exactly the same because the assumptions about differentiability are different.




Interesting, thanks!




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