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Bichromatic Perfect Matchings with Crossings

Computational Geometry 2023-09-04 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider bichromatic point sets with nn red and nn blue points and study straight-line bichromatic perfect matchings on them. We show that every such point set in convex position admits a matching with at least 3n28n2+c\frac{3n^2}{8}-\frac{n}{2}+c crossings, for some 12c18 -\frac{1}{2} \leq c \leq \frac{1}{8}. This bound is tight since for any k>3n28n2+18k> \frac{3n^2}{8} -\frac{n}{2}+\frac{1}{8} there exist bichromatic point sets that do not admit any perfect matching with kk crossings.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.00546,
  title  = {Bichromatic Perfect Matchings with Crossings},
  author = {Oswin Aichholzer and Stefan Felsner and Rosna Paul and Manfred Scheucher and Birgit Vogtenhuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00546},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Appears in the Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2023)

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