English

Coloring half-planes and bottomless rectangles

Combinatorics 2011-05-03 v1

Abstract

We prove lower and upper bounds for the chromatic number of certain hypergraphs defined by geometric regions. This problem has close relations to conflict-free colorings. One of the most interesting type of regions to consider for this problem is that of the axis-parallel rectangles. We completely solve the problem for a special case of them, for bottomless rectangles. We also give an almost complete answer for half-planes and pose several open problems. Moreover we give efficient coloring algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.1105.0169,
  title  = {Coloring half-planes and bottomless rectangles},
  author = {Balázs Keszegh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0169},
  year   = {2011}
}
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