Carath\'eodory, Helly and the others in the max-plus world
Combinatorics
2008-04-10 v1
Abstract
Carath\'eodory's, Helly's and Radon's theorems are three basic results in discrete geometry. Their max-plus counterparts have been proved by various authors. In this paper, more advanced results in discrete geometry are shown to have also their max-plus counterparts: namely, the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem and the Tverberg theorem. A conjecture connected to the Tverberg theorem -- Sierksma's conjecture --, although still open for the usual convexity, is shown to be true in the max-plus settings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.1361,
title = {Carath\'eodory, Helly and the others in the max-plus world},
author = {Stéphane Gaubert and Frédéric Meunier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.1361},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures