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By extending the definition of boxicity, we extend a Helly-type result given by Danzer and Grumbaum on 2-piercings of family of boxes in $d$-dimensional Euclidian space by lowering the dimension of the boxes in the ambient space.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Hector Baños , Déborah Oliveros

We prove extensions of Halman's discrete Helly theorem for axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Halman's theorem says that, given a set $S$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, if $F$ is a finite family of axis-parallel boxes such that the intersection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Timothy Edwards , Pablo Soberón

Research on Helly-type theorems in combinatorial convex geometry has produced volumetric versions of Helly's theorem using witness sets and quantitative extensions of Doignon's theorem. This paper combines these philosophies and presents…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Travis Dillon

Helly's theorem is a classical result concerning the intersection patterns of convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Two important generalizations are the colorful version and the fractional version. Recently, B\'{a}r\'{a}ny et al. combined the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Minki Kim

Hadwiger's transversal theorem gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a family of convex sets in the plane to have a line transversal. A higher dimensional version was obtained by Goodman, Pollack and Wenger, and recently a colorful…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Andreas F. Holmsen , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado

The main purpose of this paper is to study extremal results on the intersection graphs of boxes in $\R^d$. We calculate exactly the maximal number of intersecting pairs in a family $\F$ of $n$ boxes in $\R^d$ with the property that no $k+1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-20 A. Martínez-Pérez , L. Montejano , D. Oliveros

We present an explicit family of hypergraphs with arbitrarily large uniformity and chromatic number that admit realizations in both geometric and number-theoretic settings. As an application, we give a new proof of a theorem of Chen, Pach,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Gábor Damásdi

Let $A$ and $B$ be finite sets and consider a partition of the \emph{discrete box} $A \times B$ into \emph{sub-boxes} of the form $A' \times B'$ where $A' \subset A$ and $B' \subset B$. We say that such a partition has the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Eyal Ackerman , Rom Pinchasi

We demonstrate that the topological Helly theorem and the algebraic Auslander-Buchsbaum may be viewed as different versions of the same phenomenon. Using this correspondence we show how the colorful Helly theorem of I.Barany and its…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Gunnar Floystad

Given a point set $S$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, a family of sets is $S$-intersecting if its members have a point in common in $S$. Recently, Edwards and Sober\'{o}n proved a fractional version of Halman's theorem for axis-parallel boxes, showing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Taehyun Eom , Minki Kim , Eon Lee

Given a family $\mathcal{B}$ of axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^d$, let $\tau$ denote its piercing number, and $\nu$ its independence number. It is an old question whether $\tau/\nu$ can be arbitrarily large for given $d\geq 2$. Here,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-12 István Tomon

We prove that if the edges of a graph G can be colored blue or red in such a way that every vertex belongs to a monochromatic k-clique of each color, then G has at least 4(k-1) vertices. This confirms a conjecture of Bucic, Lidicky, Long,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Ron Holzman

We obtain three Helly-type results. First, we establish a Quantitative Colorful Helly-type theorem with the optimal Helly number \(2d\) concerning the diameter of the intersection of a family of convex bodies. Second, we prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 G. Ivanov , M. Naszodi

We present extensions of the Colorful Helly Theorem for $d$-collapsible and $d$-Leray complexes, providing a common generalization to the matroidal versions of the theorem due to Kalai and Meshulam, the ``very colorful" Helly theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Minki Kim , Alan Lew

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

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of convex sets in ${\mathbb R}^d$, which are colored with $d+1$ colors. We say that $\mathcal{F}$ satisfies the Colorful Helly Property if every rainbow selection of $d+1$ sets, one set from each color class,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Leonardo Martínez-Sandoval , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado , Natan Rubin

In 2009, Blagojevic, Matschke & Ziegler established the first tight colored Tverberg theorem, but no lower bounds for the number of colored Tverberg partitions. We develop a colored version of our previous results (2008), and we extend our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Stephan Hell

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 show that planar graphs have bounded queue-number, thus proving a conjecture of Heath, Leighton and Rosenberg from 1992. The key to the proof is a new structural tool called layered partitions, and the result that every planar graph has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Pat Morin , Torsten Ueckerdt , David R. Wood

This is a treatise on finite point configurations spanning a fixed volume to be found in a single color-class of an arbitrary finite (measurable) coloring of the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, or in a single large measurable subset…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Vjekoslav Kovač
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