Balanced partitions of 3-colored geometric sets in the plane
Abstract
Let be a finite set of geometric objects partitioned into classes or \emph{colors}. A subset is said to be \emph{balanced} if contains the same amount of elements of from each of the colors. We study several problems on partitioning -colored sets of points and lines in the plane into two balanced subsets: (a) We prove that for every 3-colored arrangement of lines there exists a segment that intersects exactly one line of each color, and that when there are lines of each color, there is a segment intercepting lines of each color. (b) Given red points, blue points and green points on any closed Jordan curve , we show that for every integer with there is a pair of disjoint intervals on whose union contains exactly points of each color. (c) Given a set of red points, blue points and green points in the integer lattice satisfying certain constraints, there exist two rays with common apex, one vertical and one horizontal, whose union splits the plane into two regions, each one containing a balanced subset of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.06062,
title = {Balanced partitions of 3-colored geometric sets in the plane},
author = {Sergey Bereg and Matias Korman and Rodrigo I. Silveira and Ferran Hurtado and Dolores Lara and Jorge Urrutia and Mikio Kano and Carlos Seara and Kevin Verbeek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06062},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
This paper was published in Discrete Applied Mathematics, 181:21--32, 2015