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Saturation Results Around the Erdős-Szekeres Problem

Authors Gábor Damásdi , Zichao Dong, Manfred Scheucher , Ji Zeng

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  • Mathematics of computing → Combinatorics
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  • Convex polygon
  • Cups-versus-caps
  • Monotone path
  • Saturation problem

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider saturation problems related to the celebrated Erdős-Szekeres convex polygon problem. For each n ≥ 7, we construct a planar point set of size (7/8) ⋅ 2^{n-2} which is saturated for convex n-gons. That is, the set contains no n points in convex position while the addition of any new point creates such a configuration. This demonstrates that the saturation number is smaller than the Ramsey number for the Erdős-Szekeres problem. The proof also shows that the original Erdős-Szekeres construction is indeed saturated.
Our construction is based on a similar improvement for the saturation version of the cups-versus-caps theorem. Moreover, we consider the generalization of the cups-versus-caps theorem to monotone paths in ordered hypergraphs. In contrast to the geometric setting, we show that this abstract saturation number is always equal to the corresponding Ramsey number.

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Gábor Damásdi, Zichao Dong, Manfred Scheucher, and Ji Zeng. Saturation Results Around the Erdős-Szekeres Problem. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 46:1-46:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.46

Author Details

Gábor Damásdi
  • HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
  • ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Zichao Dong
  • HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
  • Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group (ECOPRO), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, South Korea
Manfred Scheucher
  • Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Ji Zeng
  • University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary

Funding

  • Damásdi, Gábor: Research partially supported by ERC grant No. 882971, "GeoScape".
  • Dong, Zichao: Research supported by ERC grant No. 882971, "GeoScape", by the Erdős Center, and by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS-R029-C4).
  • Scheucher, Manfred: Supported by DFG grant SCHE 2214/1-1.
  • Zeng, Ji: Research supported by NSF grant DMS-1800746, ERC grant No. 882971, "GeoScape", and by the Erdős Center.

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