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The Number of Holes in the Union of Translates of a Convex Set in Three Dimensions

Authors: Boris Aronov, Otfried Cheong, Michael Gene Dobbins, and Xavier Goaoc

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 51, 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)


Abstract
We show that the union of translates of a convex body in three dimensional space can have a cubic number holes in the worst case, where a hole in a set is a connected component of its compliment. This refutes a 20-year-old conjecture. As a consequence, we also obtain improved lower bounds on the complexity of motion planning problems and of Voronoi diagrams with convex distance functions.

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Boris Aronov, Otfried Cheong, Michael Gene Dobbins, and Xavier Goaoc. The Number of Holes in the Union of Translates of a Convex Set in Three Dimensions. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 10:1-10:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.10,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Cheong, Otfried and Dobbins, Michael Gene and Goaoc, Xavier},
  title =	{{The Number of Holes in the Union of Translates of a Convex Set in Three Dimensions}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-009-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{51},
  editor =	{Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Lubiw, Anna},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59024},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Union complexity, Convex sets, Motion planning}
}
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Realization Spaces of Arrangements of Convex Bodies

Authors: Michael Gene Dobbins, Andreas Holmsen, and Alfredo Hubard

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 34, 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)


Abstract
We introduce combinatorial types of arrangements of convex bodies, extending order types of point sets to arrangements of convex bodies, and study their realization spaces. Our main results witness a trade-off between the combinatorial complexity of the bodies and the topological complexity of their realization space. On one hand, we show that every combinatorial type can be realized by an arrangement of convex bodies and (under mild assumptions) its realization space is contractible. On the other hand, we prove a universality theorem that says that the restriction of the realization space to arrangements of convex polygons with a bounded number of vertices can have the homotopy type of any primary semialgebraic set.

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Michael Gene Dobbins, Andreas Holmsen, and Alfredo Hubard. Realization Spaces of Arrangements of Convex Bodies. In 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 34, pp. 599-614, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)


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@InProceedings{dobbins_et_al:LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.599,
  author =	{Dobbins, Michael Gene and Holmsen, Andreas and Hubard, Alfredo},
  title =	{{Realization Spaces of Arrangements of Convex Bodies}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)},
  pages =	{599--614},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-83-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{34},
  editor =	{Arge, Lars and Pach, J\'{a}nos},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.599},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-51020},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.599},
  annote =	{Keywords: Oriented matroids, Convex sets, Realization spaces, Mnev’s universality theorem}
}
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