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Erdős-Szekeres-Type Problems in the Real Projective Plane Balko, Martin Scheucher, Manfred Valtr, Pavel real projective plane point set convex position k-gon k-hole Erdős-Szekeres theorem Horton set random point set We consider point sets in the real projective plane ℝ𝒫² and explore variants of classical extremal problems about planar point sets in this setting, with a main focus on Erdős-Szekeres-type problems. We provide asymptotically tight bounds for a variant of the Erdős-Szekeres theorem about point sets in convex position in ℝ𝒫², which was initiated by Harborth and Möller in 1994. The notion of convex position in ℝ𝒫² agrees with the definition of convex sets introduced by Steinitz in 1913. For k ≥ 3, an (affine) k-hole in a finite set S ⊆ ℝ² is a set of k points from S in convex position with no point of S in the interior of their convex hull. After introducing a new notion of k-holes for points sets from ℝ𝒫², called projective k-holes, we find arbitrarily large finite sets of points from ℝ𝒫² with no projective 8-holes, providing an analogue of a classical result by Horton from 1983. We also prove that they contain only quadratically many projective k-holes for k ≤ 7. On the other hand, we show that the number of k-holes can be substantially larger in ℝ𝒫² than in ℝ² by constructing, for every k ∈ {3,… ,6}, sets of n points from ℝ² ⊂ ℝ𝒫² with Ω(n^{3-3/5k}) projective k-holes and only O(n²) affine k-holes. Last but not least, we prove several other results, for example about projective holes in random point sets in ℝ𝒫² and about some algorithmic aspects. The study of extremal problems about point sets in ℝ𝒫² opens a new area of research, which we support by posing several open problems. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Martin Balko and Manfred Scheucher and Pavel Valtr 2022 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 224, 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.10 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160182 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.10 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode