Piercing intersecting convex sets

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作者
Barany, Imre [1 ,2 ]
Dillon, Travis [3 ]
Palvolgyi, Domotor [1 ,4 ]
Varga, Daniel [1 ]
机构
[1] HUN REN Alfred Reny Inst Math, 13 Realtanoda St, H-1053 Budapest, Hungary
[2] UCL, Dept Math, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England
[3] MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA USA
[4] Eotvos Lorand Univ, Budapest, Hungary
基金
芬兰科学院; 欧洲研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Helly-type theorems; Line transversals; Linear programming;
D O I
10.1016/j.laa.2025.02.007
中图分类号
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
Assume two finite families A and B of convex sets in R-3 have the property that A boolean AND B not equal & empty; for every A is an element of A and B is an element of B. Is there a constant gamma > 0 (independent of A and B) such that there is a line intersecting gamma|A| sets in A or gamma|B|sets in B? This is an intriguing Helly-type question from a paper by Martinez, Roldan and Rubin. We confirm this in the special case when all sets in A lie in parallel planes and all sets in B lie in parallel planes; in fact, one of the two families has a transversal by a single line. (c) 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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页码:405 / 417
页数:13
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