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Intersecting diametral balls induced by a geometric graph II

Combinatorics 2023-11-23 v2 Computational Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

For a graph whose vertices are points in Rd\mathbb R^d, consider the closed balls with diameters induced by its edges. The graph is called a Tverberg graph if these closed balls intersect. A max-sum tree of a finite point set XRdX \subset \mathbb R^d is a tree with vertex set XX that maximizes the sum of Euclidean distances of its edges among all trees with vertex set XX. Similarly, a max-sum matching of an even set XRdX \subset \mathbb R^d is a perfect matching of XX maximizing the sum of Euclidean distances between the matched points among all perfect matchings of XX. We prove that a max-sum tree of any finite point set in Rd\mathbb R^d is a Tverberg graph, which generalizes a recent result of Abu-Affash et al., who established this claim in the plane. Additionally, we provide a new proof of a theorem by Bereg et al., which states that a max-sum matching of any even point set in the plane is a Tverberg graph. Moreover, we proved a slightly stronger version of this theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2303.10706,
  title  = {Intersecting diametral balls induced by a geometric graph II},
  author = {Polina Barabanshchikova and Alexandr Polyanskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10706},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures

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