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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.46

Saturation Results Around the Erdős-Szekeres Problem

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

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)

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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)

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@InProceedings{damasdi_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.46,
  author =	{Dam\'{a}sdi, G\'{a}bor and Dong, Zichao and Scheucher, Manfred and Zeng, Ji},
  title =	{{Saturation Results Around the Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres Problem}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{46:1--46:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-199919},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: Convex polygon, Cups-versus-caps, Monotone path, Saturation problem}
}

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