Convex polytopes from fewer points
Combinatorics
2022-08-10 v1
Abstract
Let be the smallest integer such that any set of points in in general position contains points in convex position. In 1960, Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres showed that holds, and famously conjectured that their construction is optimal. This was nearly settled by Suk in 2017, who showed that . In this paper, we prove that holds for all . In particular, this establishes that, in higher dimensions, substantially fewer points are needed in order to ensure the presence of a convex polytope on vertices, compared to how many are required in the plane.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2208.04878,
title = {Convex polytopes from fewer points},
author = {Cosmin Pohoata and Dmitrii Zakharov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04878},
year = {2022}
}