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Twenty years ago Bondy and Vince conjectured that for any nonnegative integer $k$, except finitely many counterexamples, every graph with $k$ vertices of degree less than three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Jun Gao , Jie Ma

In their seminal paper from 1983, Erd\H{o}s and Szemer\'edi showed that any $n$ distinct integers induce either $n^{1+\epsilon}$ distinct sums of pairs or that many distinct products, and conjectured a lower bound of $n^{2-o(1)}$. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Noga Alon , Omer Angel , Itai Benjamini , Eyal Lubetzky

Klimo\v{s}ov\'a, Piguet, and Rozho\v{n} conjectured that any graph with minimum degree $k/2$ and sufficiently many vertices of degree $k$ should contain all trees with $k$ edges. We prove an asymptotic version of this conjecture for dense…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Akbar Davoodi , Diana Piguet , Hanka Řada , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

The classical Erdos-Szekeres theorem states that a convex $k$-gon exists in every sufficiently large point set. This problem has been well studied and finding tight asymptotic bounds is considered a challenging open problem. Several…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-07-31 Parikshit Kolipaka , Sathish Govindarajan

In 2001, K\'arolyi, Pach and T\'oth introduced a family of point sets to solve an Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres type problem; which have been used to solve several other Ed\H{o}s-Szekeres type problems. In this paper we refer to these sets as nested…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Frank Duque , Ruy Fabila-Monroy , Carlos Hidalgo-Toscano , Pablo Pérez-Lantero

Erd\H{o}s asked the following question: given $n$ points in the plane in almost general position (no 4 collinear), how large a set can we guarantee to find that is in general position (no 3 collinear)? F\"uredi constructed a set of $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Luka Milićević

A classical theorem of De Bruijn and Erd\H{o}s asserts that any noncollinear set of n points in the plane determines at least n distinct lines. We prove that an analogue of this theorem holds for graphs. Restricting our attention to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Pierre Aboulker , Guillaume Lagarde , David Malec , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

Karasev conjectured that for any set of $3k$ lines in general position in the plane, which is partitioned into $3$ color classes of equal size $k$, the set can be partitioned into $k$ colorful 3-subsets such that all the triangles formed by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Seunghun Lee , Kangmin Yoo

Gr\"unbaum's inequality guarantees that the centroid of a convex body has halfspace depth at least $1/e$: every halfspace containing the centroid captures at least a $1/e$ fraction of the body's volume. For mixed-integer convex sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongyu Cheng , Amitabh Basu

We show that a dense subset of a sufficiently large group multiplication table contains either a large part of the addition table of the integers modulo some $k$, or the entire multiplication table of a certain large abelian group, as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Jason Long

In 1989, Erd\H{o}s conjectured that for a sufficiently large $n$ it is impossible to place $n$ points in general position in a plane such that for every $1\le i \le n-1$ there is a distance that occurs exactly $i$ times. For small $n$ this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-25 David Burt , Eli Goldstein , Sarah Manski , Steven J. Miller , Eyvindur A. Palsson , Hong Suh

It is conjectured that if a finite set of points in the plane contains many collinear triples then there is some structure in the set. We are going to show that under some combinatorial conditions such pointsets contain special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Jozsef Solymosi

We give new bounds on the Erdos-Szekeres theorems for convex bodies of Bisztriczky and Fejes Toth and of Pach and Toth. We derive them from a combinatorial characterization of convex position of a family of planar convex bodies. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-25 Alfredo Hubard , Luis Montejano , Emiliano Mora , Andrew Suk

We present a self-contained proof that the number of diameter pairs among n points in Euclidean 3-space is at most 2n-2. The proof avoids the ball polytopes used in the original proofs by Grunbaum, Heppes and Straszewicz. As a corollary we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-13 Konrad J Swanepoel

A special case of a combinatorial theorem of De Bruijn and Erdos asserts that every noncollinear set of n points in the plane determines at least n distinct lines. Chen and Chvatal suggested a possible generalization of this assertion in…

Given a set P of points on the plane, a polygon with vertices in P is said to be empty if it contains no element of P in its interior. We show that every set of n points in general position on the plane determines at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Omar Astudillo-Marbán , Oriol Solé-Pi

In the paper ``Lower bounds on the number of crossing-free subgraphs of $K_N$'' (Computational Geometry 16 (2000), 211-221), it is shown that a double chain of $n$ points in the plane admits at least $\Omega(4.642126305^n)$ polygonizations,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Javier Tejel

For every $r\in \mathbb{N}$, we denote by $\theta_{r}$ the multigraph with two vertices and $r$ parallel edges. Given a graph $G$, we say that a subgraph $H$ of $G$ is a model of $\theta_{r}$ in $G$ if $H$ contains $\theta_{r}$ as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Jean-Florent Raymond , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

It is conjectured since long that for any convex body $K \in \mathbb{R}^n$ there exists a point in the interior of $K$ which belongs to at least $2n$ normals from different points on the boundary of $K$. The conjecture is known to be true…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-07 A. Grebennikov , G. Panina

We prove that every set of $n$ red and $n$ blue points in the plane contains a red and a blue point such that every circle through them encloses at least $n(1-\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}) -o(n)$ points of the set. This is a two-colored version of a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Mercè Claverol , Clemens Huemer , Alejandra Martínez-Moraian