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Tolerance for colorful Tverberg partitions

Combinatorics 2020-05-28 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Tverberg's theorem bounds the number of points Rd\mathbb{R}^d needed for the existence of a partition into rr parts whose convex hulls intersect. If the points are colored with NN colors, we seek partitions where each part has at most one point of each color. In this manuscript, we bound the number of color classes needed for the existence of partitions where the convex hulls of the parts intersect even after any set of tt colors is removed. We prove asymptotically optimal bounds for tt when rd+1r \le d+1, improve known bounds when r>d+1r>d+1, and give a geometric characterization for the configurations of points for which t=No(N)t=N-o(N).

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@article{arxiv.2005.13495,
  title  = {Tolerance for colorful Tverberg partitions},
  author = {Sherry Sarkar and Pablo Soberón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.13495},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure

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