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An almost optimal bound on the number of intersections of two simple polygons
What is the maximum number of intersections of the boundaries of a simple
-gon and a simple -gon, assuming general position? This is a basic
question in combinatorial geometry, and the answer is easy if at least one of
and is even: If both and are even, then every pair of sides may
cross and so the answer is . If exactly one polygon, say the -gon, has
an odd number of sides, it can intersect each side of the -gon at most
times; hence there are at most intersections. It is not hard to
construct examples that meet these bounds. If both and are odd, the
best known construction has intersections, and it is conjectured
that this is the maximum. However, the best known upper bound is only , for . We prove a new upper bound of
for some constant , which is optimal apart from the value of
.Comment: 18 pages, 24 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 36th
International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020) in June 2016
(Eds. Sergio Cabello and Danny Chen