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    Drawing the Horton Set in an Integer Grid of Minimum Size

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    In 1978 Erd\H os asked if every sufficiently large set of points in general position in the plane contains the vertices of a convex kk-gon, with the additional property that no other point of the set lies in its interior. Shortly after, Horton provided a construction---which is now called the Horton set---with no such 77-gon. In this paper we show that the Horton set of nn points can be realized with integer coordinates of absolute value at most 12n12log(n/2)\frac{1}{2} n^{\frac{1}{2} \log (n/2)}. We also show that any set of points with integer coordinates combinatorially equivalent (with the same order type) to the Horton set, contains a point with a coordinate of absolute value at least cn124log(n/2)c \cdot n^{\frac{1}{24}\log (n/2)}, where cc is a positive constant
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