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Convex polytopes from fewer points

Combinatorics 2022-08-10 v1

Abstract

Let ESd(n)ES_{d}(n) be the smallest integer such that any set of ESd(n)ES_{d}(n) points in Rd\mathbb{R}^{d} in general position contains nn points in convex position. In 1960, Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres showed that ES2(n)2n2+1ES_{2}(n) \geq 2^{n-2} + 1 holds, and famously conjectured that their construction is optimal. This was nearly settled by Suk in 2017, who showed that ES2(n)2n+o(n)ES_{2}(n) \leq 2^{n+o(n)}. In this paper, we prove that ESd(n)=2o(n)ES_{d}(n) = 2^{o(n)} holds for all d3d \geq 3. In particular, this establishes that, in higher dimensions, substantially fewer points are needed in order to ensure the presence of a convex polytope on nn vertices, compared to how many are required in the plane.

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@article{arxiv.2208.04878,
  title  = {Convex polytopes from fewer points},
  author = {Cosmin Pohoata and Dmitrii Zakharov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04878},
  year   = {2022}
}
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