Coloring points with respect to squares
Combinatorics
2017-06-13 v2
Abstract
We consider the problem of -coloring geometric hypergraphs. Specifically, we show that there is a constant such that any finite set of points in the plane can be -colored such that every axis-parallel square that contains at least points from contains points of both colors. Our proof is constructive, that is, it provides a polynomial-time algorithm for obtaining such a -coloring. By affine transformations this result immediately applies also when considering -coloring points with respect to homothets of a fixed parallelogram.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1512.01953,
title = {Coloring points with respect to squares},
author = {Eyal Ackerman and Balázs Keszegh and Máté Vizer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01953},
year = {2017}
}