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Quantitative Steinitz Theorem: A polynomial bound

Metric Geometry 2024-03-06 v2 Combinatorics Functional Analysis

Abstract

The classical Steinitz theorem states that if the origin belongs to the interior of the convex hull of a set SRdS \subset \mathbb{R}^d, then there are at most 2d2d points of SS whose convex hull contains the origin in the interior. B\'ar\'any, Katchalski, and Pach proved the following quantitative version of Steinitz's theorem. Let QQ be a convex polytope in Rd\mathbb{R}^d containing the standard Euclidean unit ball Bd\mathbf{B}^d. Then there exist at most 2d2d vertices of QQ whose convex hull QQ^\prime satisfies rBdQ r \mathbf{B}^d \subset Q^\prime with rd2dr\geq d^{-2d}. They conjectured that rcd1/2r\geq c d^{-1/2} holds with a universal constant c>0c>0. We prove r15d2r \geq \frac{1}{5d^2}, the first polynomial lower bound on rr. Furthermore, we show that rr is not be greater than 2d\frac{2}{\sqrt{d}}.

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@article{arxiv.2212.04308,
  title  = {Quantitative Steinitz Theorem: A polynomial bound},
  author = {Grigory Ivanov and Márton Naszódi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.04308},
  year   = {2024}
}

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