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A Carousel Property for Compact Convex Sets

Combinatorics 2025-12-18 v1

Abstract

We prove that if A0A_0 and A1A_1 are compact convex sets contained in a convex nn-gon with vertices g1,,gng_1, \dots, g_n, and nn is strictly greater than the number of common supporting lines of A0A_0 and A1A_1, then there exist i{0,1}i \in \{0,1\} and j{1,,n}j \in \{1,\dots, n\} such that AiA_i is in the convex hull of A1iA_{1-i} and ({g1,,gn}{gj})(\{g_1, \dots, g_n\} \setminus \{g_j\}). This recovers and generalizes previous results of Adaricheva--Bolat and Cz{\'e}dli. We also show that this bound is sharp for even nn.

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@article{arxiv.2512.14972,
  title  = {A Carousel Property for Compact Convex Sets},
  author = {Yiming Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.14972},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

15 pages, 7 figures

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