A Family of Convex Sets in the Plane Satisfying the (4, 3)-Property can be Pierced by Nine Points

Discrete & Computational Geometry - Tập 68 - Trang 860-880 - 2022
Daniel McGinnis1
1Ames, USA

Tóm tắt

We prove that every finite family of convex sets in the plane satisfying the (4, 3)-property can be pierced by nine points. This improves the bound of 13 proved by Kleitman et al. (Combinatorica 21(2), 221–232 (2001)).

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