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Point Sets with Small Integer Coordinates and with Small Convex Polygons

Combinatorics 2019-10-21 v2

Abstract

In 1935, Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres proved that every set of nn points in general position in the plane contains the vertices of a convex polygon of 12log2(n)\frac{1}{2}\log_2(n) vertices. In 1961, they constructed, for every positive integer tt, a set of n:=2t2n:=2^{t-2} points in general position in the plane, such that every convex polygon with vertices in this set has at most log2(n)+1\log_2(n)+1 vertices. In this paper we show how to realize their construction in an integer grid of size O(n2log2(n)3)O(n^2 \log_2(n)^3).

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@article{arxiv.1602.03075,
  title  = {Point Sets with Small Integer Coordinates and with Small Convex Polygons},
  author = {Frank Duque and Ruy Fabila-Monroy and Carlos Hidalgo-Toscano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03075},
  year   = {2019}
}
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