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A conjecture due to the fourth author states that every $d$-regular planar multigraph can be $d$-edge-coloured, provided that for every odd set $X$ of vertices, there are at least $d$ edges between $X$ and its complement. For $d = 3$ this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Maria Chudnovsky , Katherine Edwards , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Paul Seymour

We consider the following problem: Let $\mathcal{L}$ be an arrangement of $n$ lines in $\mathbb{R}^3$ colored red, green, and blue. Does there exist a vertical plane $P$ such that a line on $P$ simultaneously bisects all three classes of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Alexander Pilz , Patrick Schnider

Arrangements of pseudolines are a widely studied generalization of line arrangements. They are defined as a finite family of infinite curves in the Euclidean plane, any two of which intersect at exactly one point. One can state various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sandro Roch

A digraph is {\em $d$-dominating} if every set of at most $d$ vertices has a common out-neighbor. For all integers $d\geq 2$, let $f(d)$ be the smallest integer such that the vertices of every 2-edge-colored (finite or infinite) complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Louis DeBiasio , András Gyárfás

An incidence of an undirected graph G is a pair $(v,e)$ where $v$ is a vertex of $G$ and $e$ an edge of $G$ incident with $v$. Two incidences $(v,e)$ and $(w,f)$ are adjacent if one of the following holds: (i) $v = w$, (ii) $e = f$ or (iii)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Marthe Bonamy , Hervé Hocquard , Samia Kerdjoudj , André Raspaud

We consider hypergraph visualizations that represent vertices as points in the plane and hyperedges as curves passing through the points of their incident vertices. Specifically, we consider several different variants of this problem by (a)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Alexander Dobler , Stephen Kobourov , Debajyoti Mondal , Martin Nöllenburg

An old question in Euclidean Ramsey theory asks, if the points in the plane are red-blue coloured, does there always exist a red pair of points at unit distance or five blue points in line separated by unit distances? An elementary proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Sergei Tsaturian

The upper density of an infinite graph $G$ with $V(G) \subseteq \mathbb{N}$ is defined as $\overline{d}(G) = \limsup_{n \rightarrow \infty}{|V(G) \cap \{1,\ldots,n\}|}/{n}$. Let $K_{\mathbb{N}}$ be the infinite complete graph with vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-26 A. Nicholas Day , Allan Lo

Edoukou, Ling and Xing in 2010, conjectured that in \mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{F}_{q^2}), n \geq 3, the maximum number of common points of a non-degenerate Hermitian variety \mathcal{U}_n and a hypersurface of degree d is achieved only when the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Subrata Manna

A regular linear line complex is a three-parameter set of lines in space, whose Pl\"ucker vectors lie in a hyperplane, which is not tangent to the Klein quadric. Our main result is a bound $O(n^{1/2}m^{3/4} + m+n)$ for the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Misha Rudnev

It was previously shown that any two-colour colouring of K(C_n) must contain a monochromatic planar K_4 subgraph for n >= N^*, where 6 <= N^* <= N and N is Graham's number. The bound was later improved to 11 <= N^* <= N. In this article, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-11-10 Jerome Barkley

We consider incidences among colored sets of lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and examine whether the existence of certain concurrences between lines of $k$ colors force the existence of at least one concurrence between lines of $k+1$ colors. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Boris Bukh , Xavier Goaoc , Alfredo Hubard , Matthew Trager

We prove that any finite set of half-planes can be colored by two colors so that every point of the plane, which belongs to at least three half-planes in the set, is covered by half-planes of both colors. This settles a problem of Keszegh.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-05 Radoslav Fulek

Consider a bicolored point set $P$ in general position in the plane consisting of $n$ blue and $n$ red points. We show that if a subset of the red points forms the vertices of a convex polygon separating the blue points, lying inside the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Jan Soukup

Given n red and n blue points in general position in the plane, it is well-known that there is a perfect matching formed by non-crossing line segments. We characterize the bichromatic point sets which admit exactly one non-crossing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Andrei Asinowski , Tillmann Miltzow , Günter Rote

Motivated by classical work of Alon and F\"uredi, we introduce and address the following problem: determine the minimum number of affine hyperplanes in $\mathbb{R}^d$ needed to cover every point of the triangular grid $T_d(n) :=…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Abdul Basit , Alexander Clifton , Paul Horn

We consider two incidence problems for integral curves of vector fields. The first is an analogue of the Euclidean joints problem, in which lines are replaced by integral curves of smooth vector fields taken from some finite-dimensional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Kaiyi Huang , Betsy Stovall , Sarah Tammen

Given a set of points in the plane each colored either red or blue, we find non-self-intersecting geometric spanning cycles of the red points and of the blue points such that each edge of the red spanning cycle is crossed at most three…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Benson Joeris , Isabel Urrutia , Jorge Urrutia

Given a point set, mostly a grid in our case, we seek upper and lower bounds on the number of curves that are needed to cover the point set. We say a curve covers a point if the curve passes through the point. We consider such coverings by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Arijit Bishnu , Mathew Francis , Pritam Majumder

We prove that for any point set P in the plane, a triangle T, and a positive integer k, there exists a coloring of P with k colors such that any homothetic copy of T containing at least ck^8 points of P, for some constant c, contains at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Jean Cardinal , Kolja Knauer , Piotr Micek , Torsten Ueckerdt