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Realizing an m-uniform four-chromatic hypergraph with disks

Combinatorics 2020-11-25 v1 Computational Geometry Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We prove that for every mm there is a finite point set P\mathcal{P} in the plane such that no matter how P\mathcal{P} is three-colored, there is always a disk containing exactly mm points, all of the same color. This improves a result of Pach, Tardos and T\'oth who proved the same for two colors. The main ingredient of the construction is a subconstruction whose points are in convex position. Namely, we show that for every mm there is a finite point set P\mathcal{P} in the plane in convex position such that no matter how P\mathcal{P} is two-colored, there is always a disk containing exactly mm points, all of the same color. We also prove that for unit disks no similar construction can work, and several other results.

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@article{arxiv.2011.12187,
  title  = {Realizing an m-uniform four-chromatic hypergraph with disks},
  author = {Gábor Damásdi and Pálvölgyi Dömötör},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12187},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

17 pages, 7 figures

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