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A variant of the Hadwiger-Debrunner (p,q)-problem in the plane

Computational Geometry 2015-09-08 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

Let XX be a convex curve in the plane (say, the unit circle), and let S\mathcal S be a family of planar convex bodies, such that every two of them meet at a point of XX. Then S\mathcal S has a transversal NR2N\subset\mathbb R^2 of size at most 1.751091.75\cdot 10^9. Suppose instead that S\mathcal S only satisfies the following "(p,2)(p,2)-condition": Among every pp elements of S\mathcal S there are two that meet at a common point of XX. Then S\mathcal S has a transversal of size O(p8)O(p^8). For comparison, the best known bound for the Hadwiger--Debrunner (p,q)(p, q)-problem in the plane, with q=3q=3, is O(p6)O(p^6). Our result generalizes appropriately for Rd\mathbb R^d if XRdX\subset \mathbb R^d is, for example, the moment curve.

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@article{arxiv.1409.1194,
  title  = {A variant of the Hadwiger-Debrunner (p,q)-problem in the plane},
  author = {Sathish Govindarajan and Gabriel Nivasch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1194},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure