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A center transversal theorem for an improved Rado depth

Metric Geometry 2018-08-07 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

A celebrated result of Dol'nikov, and of \v{Z}ivaljevi\'c and Vre\'cica, asserts that for every collection of mm measures μ1,,μm\mu_1,\dots,\mu_m on the Euclidean space Rn+m1\mathbb R^{n + m - 1} there exists a projection onto an nn-dimensional vector subspace Γ\Gamma with a point in it at depth at least 1n+1\tfrac{1}{n + 1} with respect to each associated nn-dimensional marginal measure Γμ1,,Γμm\Gamma_*\mu_1,\dots,\Gamma_*\mu_m. In this paper we consider a natural extension of this result and ask for a minimal dimension of a Euclidean space in which one can require that for any collection of mm measures there exists a vector subspace Γ\Gamma with a point in it at depth slightly greater than 1n+1\tfrac{1}{n + 1} with respect to each nn-dimensional marginal measure. In particular, we prove that if the required depth is 1n+1+13(n+1)3\tfrac{1}{n + 1} + \tfrac{1}{3(n + 1)^3} then the increase in the dimension of the ambient space is a linear function in both mm and nn.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1606.08225,
  title  = {A center transversal theorem for an improved Rado depth},
  author = {Pavle V. M. Blagojević and Roman Karasev and Alexander Magazinov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08225},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

v.2: Corrections in Sections 3 and 4 implemented, not affecting the course of the proof; v.3: Replaced with a joint paper by 3 authors with a stronger result; v.4: Final version, accepted to Discrete Comp. Geom

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