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On Crossing-Families in Planar Point Sets

Computational Geometry 2022-10-03 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

A kk-crossing family in a point set SS in general position is a set of kk segments spanned by points of SS such that all kk segments mutually cross. In this short note we present two statements on crossing families which are based on sets of small cardinality: (1) Any set of at least 15 points contains a crossing family of size 4. (2) There are sets of nn points which do not contain a crossing family of size larger than 8n418\lceil \frac{n}{41} \rceil. Both results improve the previously best known bounds.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.10705,
  title  = {On Crossing-Families in Planar Point Sets},
  author = {Oswin Aichholzer and Jan Kynčl and Manfred Scheucher and Birgit Vogtenhuber and Pavel Valtr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10705},
  year   = {2022}
}
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