A variant of the Hadwiger-Debrunner (p,q)-problem in the plane
Computational Geometry
2015-09-08 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be a convex curve in the plane (say, the unit circle), and let be a family of planar convex bodies, such that every two of them meet at a point of . Then has a transversal of size at most . Suppose instead that only satisfies the following "-condition": Among every elements of there are two that meet at a common point of . Then has a transversal of size . For comparison, the best known bound for the Hadwiger--Debrunner -problem in the plane, with , is . Our result generalizes appropriately for if 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