ISSN:
1432-0444
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
,
Mathematics
Notes:
Abstract. We prove a fractional version of the Erdős—Szekeres theorem: for any k there is a constant c k 〉 0 such that any sufficiently large finite set X⊂ R 2 contains k subsets Y 1 , ... ,Y k , each of size ≥ c k |X| , such that every set {y 1 ,...,y k } with y i ε Y i is in convex position. The main tool is a lemma stating that any finite set X⊂ R d contains ``large'' subsets Y 1 ,...,Y k such that all sets {y 1 ,...,y k } with y i ε Y i have the same geometric (order) type. We also prove several related results (e.g., the positive fraction Radon theorem, the positive fraction Tverberg theorem). 〈lsiheader〉 〈onlinepub〉26 June, 1998 〈editor〉Editors-in-Chief: &lsilt;a href=../edboard.html#chiefs&lsigt;Jacob E. Goodman, Richard Pollack&lsilt;/a&lsigt; 〈pdfname〉19n3p335.pdf 〈pdfexist〉yes 〈htmlexist〉no 〈htmlfexist〉no 〈texexist〉yes 〈sectionname〉 〈/lsiheader〉
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00009350
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