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We provide a new quantitative version of Helly's theorem: there exists an absolute constant $\alpha >1$ with the following property: if $\{P_i: i\in I\}$ is a finite family of convex bodies in ${\mathbb R}^n$ with ${\rm int}\left…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Silouanos Brazitikos

Two celebrated extensions of Helly's theorem are the Fractional Helly theorem of Katchalski and Liu (1979) and the Quantitative Volume theorem of B\'ar\'any, Katchalski, and Pach (1982). Improving on several recent works, we prove an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Nóra Frankl , Attila Jung , István Tomon

Brazitikos' results on quantititative Helly-type theorems (for the volume and for the diameter) rely on the work of Srivastava on sparsification of John's decompositions. We change this technique by a stronger recent result due to Friedland…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Tomás Fernandez Vidal , Daniel Galicer , Mariano Merzbacher

In this paper, we explore affine semigroup versions of the convex geometry theorems of Helly, Tverberg, and Caratheodory. Additionally, we develop a new theory of colored affine semigroups, where the semigroup generators each receive a…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Jesus A. De Loera , Christopher O'Neill , Chengyang Wang

In this article we discuss classical theorems from Convex Geometry in the context of topological drawings and beyond. In a simple topological drawing of the complete graph $K_n$, any two edges share at most one point: either a common vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Helena Bergold , Stefan Felsner , Manfred Scheucher , Felix Schröder , Raphael Steiner

We present a unified approach to prove Helly-type theorems for monotone properties of boxes, such as having large volume or containing points from a given set. As a corollary, we obtain new proofs for several earlier results regarding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Nóra Frankl , Attila Jung

This is a survey on an analogue of tropical convexity developed over the max-min semiring, starting with the descriptions of max-min segments, semispaces, hyperplanes and an account of separation and non-separation results based on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Viorel Nitica , Sergei Sergeev

Suppose $D$ is a suitably admissible compact subset of $\mathbb{R}^k$ having a smooth boundary with possible zones of zero curvature. Let \mbox{$R(T,\theta,x)= N(T,\theta,x) - T^{k}\mathrm{vol}(D)$,} where $N(T,\theta,x)$ is the number of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Burton Randol

The main results here are two Helly type theorems for the sum of (at most) unit vectors in a normed plane. Also, we give a new characterization of centrally symmetric convex sets in the plane.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Imre Bárány , Jesús Jerónimo-Castro

An important problem in analytic and geometric combinatorics is estimating the number of lattice points in a compact convex set in a Euclidean space. Such estimates have numerous applications throughout mathematics. In this note, we exhibit…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Lenny Fukshansky , Glenn Henshaw

We introduce the concept of compact quantitative equational theory. A quantitative equational theory is defined to be compact if all its consequences are derivable by means of finite proofs. We prove that the theory of interpolative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Matteo Mio

We give an improvement of the Carath\'eodory theorem for strong convexity (ball convexity) in $\mathbb R^n$, reducing the Carath\'eodory number to $n$ in several cases; and show that the Carath\'eodory number cannot be smaller than $n$ for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Vuong Bui , Roman Karasev

In 1989 H. Tverberg proposed a quite general conjecture in Discrete geometry, which could be considered as the common basis for many results in Combinatorial geometry and at the same time as a discrete analogue of the common transversal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sinisa T. Vrecica

This paper discusses Tverberg-type theorems with coordinate constraints (i.e., versions of these theorems where all points lie within a subset $S \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and the intersection of convex hulls is required to have a non-empty…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Jesús A. De Loera , Thomas A. Hogan , Frédéric Meunier , Nabil Mustafa

A Helly-type theorem for diameter provides a bound on the diameter of the intersection of a finite family of convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$ given some information on the diameter of the intersection of all sufficiently small subfamilies. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Travis Dillon , Pablo Soberón

We use the probabilistic method to obtain versions of the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem and Tverberg's theorem with tolerance. In particular, we give bounds for the smallest integer $N=N(t,d,r)$ such that for any $N$ points in $R^d$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Pablo Soberón

We report on some recent progress regarding combinatorial properties in convexity spaces with a bounded Radon number. In particular, we discuss the relationship between the Radon number, the colorful and fractional Helly properties, weak…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Andreas F. Holmsen

The colorful Helly theorem and Tverberg's theorem are fundamental results in discrete geometry. We prove a theorem which interpolates between the two. In particular, we show the following for any integers $d \geq m \geq 1$ and $k$ a prime…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Michael Gene Dobbins , Andreas F. Holmsen , Dohyeon Lee

We prove the logarithmic convexity of certain quantities, which measure the quadratic exponential decay at infinity and within two characteristic hyperplanes of solutions of Schr\"odinger evolutions. As a consequence we obtain some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-13 L. Escauriaza , C. E. Kenig , G. Ponce , L. Vega

Methods for measuring convexity defects of compacts in R^n abound. However, none of the those measures seems to take into account continuity. Continuity in convexity measure is essential for optimization, stability analysis, global…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Abel Douzal , Ferdinand Jacobé de Naurois