Isometric and affine copies of a set in volumetric Helly results
Metric Geometry
2020-10-09 v1 Computational Geometry
Combinatorics
Abstract
We show that for any compact convex set in and any finite family of convex sets in , if the intersection of every sufficiently small subfamily of contains an isometric copy of of volume , then the intersection of the whole family contains an isometric copy of scaled by a factor of , where is positive and fixed in advance. Unless is very similar to a disk, the shrinking factor is unavoidable. We prove similar results for affine copies of . We show how our results imply the existence of randomized algorithms that approximate the largest copy of that fits inside a given polytope whose expected runtime is linear on the number of facets of .
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@article{arxiv.2010.04135,
title = {Isometric and affine copies of a set in volumetric Helly results},
author = {John A. Messina and Pablo Soberón},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04135},
year = {2020}
}
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10 pages, 2 figures