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Coloring points with respect to squares

Combinatorics 2017-06-13 v2

Abstract

We consider the problem of 22-coloring geometric hypergraphs. Specifically, we show that there is a constant mm such that any finite set of points in the plane SR2\mathcal{S} \subset {\mathbb R}^2 can be 22-colored such that every axis-parallel square that contains at least mm points from S\mathcal{S} contains points of both colors. Our proof is constructive, that is, it provides a polynomial-time algorithm for obtaining such a 22-coloring. By affine transformations this result immediately applies also when considering 22-coloring points with respect to homothets of a fixed parallelogram.

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@article{arxiv.1512.01953,
  title  = {Coloring points with respect to squares},
  author = {Eyal Ackerman and Balázs Keszegh and Máté Vizer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01953},
  year   = {2017}
}
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