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Rectilinear Crossings in Complete Balanced d-Partite d-Uniform Hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2020-12-17 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the embedding of a complete balanced dd-partite dd-uniform hypergraph with all its ndnd vertices represented as points in general position in Rd\mathbb{R}^d and each hyperedge drawn as a convex hull of dd corresponding vertices. We assume that the set of vertices is partitioned into dd disjoint sets, each of size nn, such that each of the vertices in a hyperedge is from a different set. Two hyperedges are said to be crossing if they are vertex disjoint and contain a common point in their relative interiors. Using the Generalized Colored Tverberg Theorem, we observe that such an embedding of a complete balanced dd-partite dd-uniform hypergraph with ndnd vertices contains Ω((8/3)d/2)(n/2)d((n1)/2)d\Omega\left((8/3)^{d/2}\right){\left({n/2}\right)^d{\left((n-1)/2\right)}^d} crossing pairs of hyperedges for sufficiently large nn and dd. Using the Gale Transform and the Ham-Sandwich Theorem, we improve this lower bound to Ω(2d)(n/2)d((n1)/2)d \Omega\left(2^{d}\right){\left({n/2}\right)^d{\left((n-1)/2\right)}^d} for sufficiently large nn and dd.

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@article{arxiv.1712.05539,
  title  = {Rectilinear Crossings in Complete Balanced d-Partite d-Uniform Hypergraphs},
  author = {Rahul Gangopadhyay and Saswata Shannigrahi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05539},
  year   = {2020}
}
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