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On Helly Numbers of Exponential Lattices
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This research was initiated at the 11th Emléktábla workshop on combinatorics and geometry. We would like to thank Géza Tóth for interesting discussions about the problem during the early stages of the research
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Gergely Ambrus, Martin Balko, Nóra Frankl, Attila Jung, and Márton Naszódi. On Helly Numbers of Exponential Lattices. In 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 258, pp. 8:1-8:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.8
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.8
Abstract
Given a set S ⊆ ℝ², define the Helly number of S, denoted by H(S), as the smallest positive integer N, if it exists, for which the following statement is true: for any finite family ℱ of convex sets in ℝ² such that the intersection of any N or fewer members of ℱ contains at least one point of S, there is a point of S common to all members of ℱ.
We prove that the Helly numbers of exponential lattices {αⁿ : n ∈ ℕ₀}² are finite for every α > 1 and we determine their exact values in some instances. In particular, we obtain H({2ⁿ : n ∈ ℕ₀}²) = 5, solving a problem posed by Dillon (2021).
For real numbers α, β > 1, we also fully characterize exponential lattices L(α,β) = {αⁿ : n ∈ ℕ₀} × {βⁿ : n ∈ ℕ₀} with finite Helly numbers by showing that H(L(α,β)) is finite if and only if log_α(β) is rational.
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- Mathematics of computing → Combinatoric problems
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- Helly numbers
- exponential lattices
- Diophantine approximation
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