Natan Rubin

Senior Academic

Improved bounds for geometric permutations

Natan Rubin, Haim Kaplan, Micha Sharir

We show that the number of geometric permutations of an arbitrary collection of n pairwise disjoint convex sets in Rd, for d = 3, is O(n2d-3 log n), improving Wenger's 20-year-old bound of O(n2d-2).

Publication language English
Pages 367-390
Journal SIAM Journal on Computing
Volume 41
Issue number 2
Publication status Published - 04.06.2012

Keywords

Combinatorial complexity
Convex sets
Geometric permutations
Line transversals
Lines in space

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Computer Science
General Mathematics
Access to Document
10.1137/110835918
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