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Kostant's convexity theorem

Kostant's convexity theorem is like having a big bag of candy that you want to share with your friends. You have a lot of different types of candy in the bag, but you only want to give some of them to each friend so that everyone gets a fair share.

In math terms, imagine you have a really complicated shape that is too tricky to split up evenly. Kostant's convexity theorem tells us that we can instead chop up the shape into lots of tiny pieces, and then divide these up fairly between everyone.

The important thing about this theorem is that it works for lots of different types of shapes and situations, so you can use it in all sorts of math problems. It's like having a secret candy trick that you can use whenever you need to share something out fairly!