A Purely Geometric Variant of the Gale-Berlekamp Switching Game
Computational Geometry
2025-08-19 v4 Combinatorics
Abstract
We introduce the following variant of the Gale-Berlekamp switching game. Let be a set of n noncollinear points in the plane, each of them having weight or . At each step, we pick a line passing through at least two points of , and switch the sign of every point . The objective is to maximize the total weight of the elements of . We show that one can always achieve that this quantity is at least , as , and at least , for every . Moreover, these can be attained by a polynomial time algorithm.
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@article{arxiv.2502.16305,
title = {A Purely Geometric Variant of the Gale-Berlekamp Switching Game},
author = {Adrian Dumitrescu and Jeck Lim and János Pach and Ji Zeng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16305},
year = {2025}
}
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11 pages, 3 figures