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This survey presents recent Helly-type geometric theorems published since the appearance of the last comprehensive survey, more than ten years ago. We discuss how such theorems continue to be influential in computational geometry and in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Nina Amenta , Jesús A. De Loera , Pablo Soberón

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

We show that the Carath\'eodory number for $H$-convexity is the maximum of two parameters: the Helly number for $H$-convexity and the cone number of $H$. The cone number in this article is defined as the maximal number of points of $H$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Vuong Bui

We provide a number of new quantitative versions of Helly's theorem. For example, we show that for every family $\{P_i:i\in I\}$ of closed half-spaces $$P_i=\{x\in {\mathbb R}^n:\langle x,w_i\rangle \leq 1\}$$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$ such that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Silouanos Brazitikos

Recently geometric hypergraphs that can be defined by intersections of pseudohalfplanes with a finite point set were defined in a purely combinatorial way. This led to extensions of earlier results about points and halfplanes to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Balázs Keszegh

We study two combinatorial parameters, which we denote by f(S) and h(S), associated to an arbitrary set S \subseteq R^d, where d \in N. In the nondegenerate situation, f(S) is the largest possible number of facets of a d-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Gennadiy Averkov

Let X be a simplicial complex on the vertex set V. The rational Leray number L(X) of X is the minimal d such that the rational reduced homology of any induced subcomplex of X vanishes in dimensions d and above. Let \pi be a simplicial map…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Gil Kalai , Roy Meshulam

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

A hollow axis-aligned box is the boundary of the cartesian product of $d$ compact intervals in R^d. We show that for d\geq 3, if any 2^d of a collection of hollow axis-aligned boxes have non-empty intersection, then the whole collection has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-24 Konrad J. Swanepoel

We prove that the set of directions of lines intersecting three disjoint balls in $R^3$ in a given order is a strictly convex subset of $S^2$. We then generalize this result to $n$ disjoint balls in $R^d$. As a consequence, we can improve…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ciprian Borcea , Xavier Goaoc , Sylvain Petitjean

We prove a no-dimensional Helly theorem for affine spaces and convex sets using the unboundedness framework of Aronov, Goodman, and Pollack (Computational Geometry, 2002). This generalizes the fundamental result of Adiprasito, B\'ar\'any,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Sutanoya Chakraborty , Arijit Ghosh , Soumi Nandi

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $n$ axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $\alpha\in (1-1/d,1]$ a real number. There exists a real number $\beta(\alpha )>0$ such that if there are $\alpha {n\choose 2}$ intersecting pairs in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 I. Bárány , F. Fodor , A. Martínez-Pérez , L. Montejano , D. Oliveros , A. Pór

We study colorful no-dimensional Tverberg-type problems and obtain several optimal results. A colorful no-dimensional Tverberg-type theorem provides a bound on a radius $R$ such that, for any pairwise disjoint $k$-element subsets…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Polina Barabanshchikova , Grigory Ivanov , Alexander Polyanskii

We propose a notion of depth with respect to a finite family $\mathcal{F}$ of convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$ which we call $\text{dep}_\mathcal{F}$. We begin showing that $\text{dep}_\mathcal{F}$ satisfies some expected properties for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Leonardo Martínez-Sandoval , Roee Tamam

The aim of this note is to give an elementary proof of the following fact: given 3 red convex sets and 3 blue convex sets in $\mathbb{E}^3$, such that every red intersects every blue, there is a line transversal to the reds or there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Ricardo Strausz

We consider sets and maps defined over an o-minimal structure over the reals, such as real semi-algebraic or subanalytic sets. A {\em monotone map} is a multi-dimensional generalization of a usual univariate monotone function, while the…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Saugata Basu , Andrei Gabrielov , Nicolai Vorobjov

In 2008, Halman proved a discrete Helly-type theorem for axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb R^d$. Very recently, this result was extended to the $(p,q)$ setting with $p \geq q \geq d+1$ by Edwards and Sober\'on, and subsequently to the case $p…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Wei Rao

Let $H$ be a triple system with maximum degree $d>1$ and let $r>10^7\sqrt{d}\log^{2}d$. Then $H$ has a proper vertex coloring with $r$ colors such that any two color classes differ in size by at most one. The bound on $r$ is sharp in order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-25 Hal Kierstead , Dhruv Mubayi

In this paper, we study the properties of the colored HOMFLY polynomials via HOMFLY skein theory. We prove some limit behaviors and symmetries of the colored HOMFLY polynomial predicted in some physicists' recent works.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Shengmao Zhu

A basic measure of the combinatorial complexity of a convexity space is its Radon number. In this paper we show a fractional Helly theorem for convexity spaces with a bounded Radon number, answering a question of Kalai. As a consequence we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Andreas F. Holmsen , Dong-Gyu Lee