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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 KK in Rd\mathbb{R}^d and any finite family F\mathcal{F} of convex sets in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, if the intersection of every sufficiently small subfamily of F\mathcal{F} contains an isometric copy of KK of volume 11, then the intersection of the whole family contains an isometric copy of KK scaled by a factor of (1ε)(1-\varepsilon), where ε\varepsilon is positive and fixed in advance. Unless KK is very similar to a disk, the shrinking factor is unavoidable. We prove similar results for affine copies of KK. We show how our results imply the existence of randomized algorithms that approximate the largest copy of KK that fits inside a given polytope PP whose expected runtime is linear on the number of facets of PP.

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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