Tight colorful no-dimensional Tverberg theorem
Abstract
We study colorful no-dimensional Tverberg-type problems and obtain several optimal results. A colorful no-dimensional Tverberg-type theorem provides a bound on a radius such that, for any pairwise disjoint -element subsets of a normed space, there exists a partition of into disjoint transversals for which a ball of radius intersects the convex hull of each (). Our methods are deterministic and dimension-free, and they are unified by optimizing two functionals: a quadratic \emph{selection} functional whose local maximizers produce a complete system of disjoint transversals, and a convex \emph{intersection} functional that certifies a common point. First, in the Euclidean setting we bound in terms of the Chebyshev radii (minimal enclosing-ball radii) of the color classes . A key observation is a ``combinatorial'' subadditivity of the squared Chebyshev radius: given sequences and of points in a Euclidean space, contained in balls of radii and (not necessarily with the same center), one can reenumerate so that the pointwise-sum sequence is contained in a ball of radius satisfying As a corollary, we obtain the best-possible bound Our algorithm returns the desired disjoint transversals in overall time . Second, we develop a complementary approach based on the inter-color diameter and extend the framework to obtain no-dimensional colorful Tverberg-type results in the hyperbolic setting and in Banach spaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2408.05814,
title = {Tight colorful no-dimensional Tverberg theorem},
author = {Polina Barabanshchikova and Grigory Ivanov and Alexander Polyanskii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05814},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
v3: 18 pages. Added a new co-author. Paper completely rewritten with new results (Theorem 1.3, Theorem 1.4, Lemma 4.3, etc.)