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A convex geometric hypergraph or cgh consists of a family of subsets of a strictly convex set of points in the plane. There are eight pairwise nonisomorphic cgh's consisting of two disjoint triples. These were studied at length by Bra{\ss}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Zoltán Füredi , Dhruv Mubayi , Jason O'Neill , Jacques Verstraëte

Given a convex $n$-gon $P$ and a positive integer $m$ such that $3\le m\le n-1$, let $Q$ denote the largest area convex $m$-gon contained in $P$. We are interested in the minimum value of $\Delta(Q)/\Delta(P)$, the ratio of the areas of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Dan Ismailescu , Min Jung Kim , Eric Wang

R. Nandakumar asked whether there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise incongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. Recently a negative answer was given by Kupavskii, Pach and Tardos. Still one may ask for weaker versions of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Dirk Frettlöh , Christian Richter

From among $ {n \choose 3}$ triangles with vertices chosen from $n$ points in the unit square, let $T$ be the one with the smallest area, and let $A$ be the area of $T$. Heilbronn's triangle problem asks for the maximum value assumed by $A$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tao Jiang , Ming Li , Paul Vitanyi

The aim of this paper is to consider the Lobachevskii geometry analog of a well-known Euclidian problem; namely: to find a triangle with two fixed sides and the maximum area

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-30 Jane I. Alekseeva

Imagine a polygon-shaped platform $P$ and only one static spotlight outside $P$; which direction should the spotlight face to light most of $P$? This problem occurs in maximising the visibility, as well as in limiting the uncertainty in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Igor Potapov , Jason Ralph , Theofilos Triommatis

We prove that every unit area convex pentagon is contained in a convex quadrilateral of area no greater than $3/\sqrt{5}$, and that every unit area convex hexagon is contained in a convex pentagon of area no greater than $7/6$. Both results…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Elliot Hong , Dan Ismailescu , Alex Kwak , Grace Yeeun Park

We present a new algorithm for approximating the number of triangles in a graph $G$ whose edges arrive as an arbitrary order stream. If $m$ is the number of edges in $G$, $T$ the number of triangles, $\Delta_E$ the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Rajesh Jayaram , John Kallaugher

The cevian triangle corresponding to an interior point $M$ of a triangle is the triangle determined by the feet of the three cevians concurrent at $M$. It is known that the area of the cevian triangle for an interior point $M$ of a triangle…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yagub N. Aliyev

A fundamental problem in shape matching and geometric similarity is computing the maximum area overlap between two polygons under translation. For general simple polygons, the best-known algorithm runs in $O((nm)^2 \log(nm))$ time [Mount,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Sujoy Bhore , Maike Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Ce Jin , André Nusser , Carolin Rehs

We study the maximum numbers of pseudo-triangulations and pointed pseudo-triangulations that can be embedded over a specific set of points in the plane or contained in a specific triangulation. We derive the bounds $O(5.45^N)$ and $\Omega…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Moria Ben-Ner , André Schulz , Adam Sheffer

We revisit the following problem (along with its higher dimensional variant): Given a set $S$ of $n$ points inside an axis-parallel rectangle $U$ in the plane, find a maximum-area axis-parallel sub-rectangle that is contained in $U$ but…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Adrian Dumitrescu , Minghui Jiang

Given a set of $n$ points in the plane, and a parameter $k$, we consider the problem of computing the minimum (perimeter or area) axis-aligned rectangle enclosing $k$ points. We present the first near quadratic time algorithm for this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Timothy M. Chan , Sariel Har-Peled

Given a combinatorial triangulation of an $n$-gon, we study (a) the space of all possible drawings in the plane such the edges are straight line segments and the boundary has a fixed shape, and (b) the algebraic variety of possibilities for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Aaron Abrams , James Pommersheim

We present filling as a type of spatial subdivision problem similar to covering and packing. Filling addresses the optimal placement of overlapping objects lying entirely inside an arbitrary shape so as to cover the most interior volume. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Carolyn L. Phillips , Joshua A. Anderson , Greg Huber , Sharon C. Glotzer

We show that among any $n$ points in the unit cube one can find a triangle of area at most $n^{-2/3-c}$ for some absolute constant $c >0$. This gives the first non-trivial upper bound for the three-dimensional version of Heilbronn's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Dominique Maldague , Hong Wang , Dmitrii Zakharov

We introduce an algorithm which can be directly used to feasible and optimum search in linear programming. Starting from an initial point the algorithm iteratively moves a point in a direction to resolve the violated constraints. At the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Denys Shcherbak , Natalya Pya Arnqvist

Maximal $(k+1)$-crossing-free graphs on a planar point set in convex position, that is, $k$-triangulations, have received attention in recent literature, with motivation coming from several interpretations of them. We introduce a new way of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Vincent Pilaud , Francisco Santos

We briefly introduce several problems: (1) a generalization of the convex fair partition conjecture, (2) on non-trivial invariants among polyhedrons that can be formed from the same set of face polygons, (3) two questions on assembling…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-16 R. Nandakumar

We give some new advances in the research of the maximum number of triangles that we may obtain in a simple arrangements of n lines or pseudo-lines.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-19 Nicolas Bartholdi , Jérémy Blanc , Sébastien Loisel