Optimal bounds for the colorful fractional Helly theorem
Abstract
The well known fractional Helly theorem and colorful Helly theorem can be merged into the so called colorful fractional Helly theorem. It states: For every and every non-negative integer , there is with the following property. Let be finite nonempty families of convex sets in of sizes respectively. If at least of the colorful -tuples have a nonempty intersection, then there is such that contains a subfamily of size at least with a nonempty intersection. (A colorful -tuple is a -tuple such that belongs to for every .) The colorful fractional Helly theorem was first stated and proved by B\'ar\'any, Fodor, Montejano, Oliveros, and P\'or in 2014 with . In 2017 Kim proved the theorem with better function , which in particular tends to when tends to . Kim also conjectured what is the optimal bound for and provided the upper bound example for the optimal bound. The conjectured bound coincides with the optimal bounds for the (non-colorful) fractional Helly theorem proved independently by Eckhoff and Kalai around 1984. We verify Kim's conjecture by extending Kalai's approach to the colorful scenario. Moreover, we obtain optimal bounds also in more general setting when we allow several sets of the same color.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2010.15765,
title = {Optimal bounds for the colorful fractional Helly theorem},
author = {Denys Bulavka and Afshin Goodarzi and Martin Tancer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15765},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
13 pages, 1 figure. The main technical result is extended to c colors, where c is a positive integer, in contrast to the previous version where we only allowed (d+1) colors. We added the acknowledgments