ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Quasiregular representation

Okay kiddo, let's talk about quasiregular representations.

Imagine you have a group of friends. Each friend has a special toy, and they like to pass them around to each other when they play together. Now, imagine you want to draw a picture of your friends playing with their toys.

To draw this picture, you need to understand how the toys are being passed around. If one friend is always passing their toy to the same friend, or if some toys are never being passed at all, your picture might not look very accurate.

A quasiregular representation is like a way of drawing a picture of how the toys are being passed around between your friends. It tells you which toys are being passed, and who is passing them.

But why is this important? Well, let's say you're curious to know if your group of friends is doing a good job of sharing their toys equally. You could use the quasiregular representation to help you figure this out. If the toys are being passed around relatively evenly, your picture will show this.

So, in summary, a quasiregular representation is a way of drawing a picture to show how things are being passed around in a group. It can help us to understand if things are being passed around evenly, or if there might be some friends who are not getting their fair share of the toys.