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Planar point sets determine many pairwise crossing segments

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    Abstract

    We show that any set of n points in general position in the plane determines n1−o(1) pairwise crossing segments. The best previously known lower bound, Ω n, was proved more than 25 years ago by Aronov, Erdős, Goddard, Kleitman, Klugerman, Pach, and Schulman. Our proof is fully constructive, and extends to dense geometric graphs.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSTOC 2019 - Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing
    EditorsMoses Charikar, Edith Cohen
    Pages1158-1166
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450367059
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 23 Jun 2019
    Event51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2019 - Phoenix, United States
    Duration: 23 Jun 201926 Jun 2019

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

    Conference

    Conference51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityPhoenix
    Period23/06/1926/06/19

    Keywords

    • Avoiding edges
    • Comparability graphs
    • Computational geometry
    • Crossing edges
    • Extremal combinatorics
    • Geometric graphs
    • Intersection graphs
    • Partial orders

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software

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