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Sunflowers of Convex Open Sets
A sunflower is a collection of sets such that the
pairwise intersection is the same for all choices of distinct
and . We study sunflowers of convex open sets in , and provide
a Helly-type theorem describing a certain "rigidity" that they possess. In
particular we show that if is a sunflower in , then any hyperplane that intersects all must also intersect
. We use our results to describe a combinatorial code
for all which is on the one hand minimally non-convex,
and on the other hand has no local obstructions. Along the way we further
develop the theory of morphisms of codes, and establish results on the covering
relation in the poset
Distances between realizations of order types
Any -tuple of points in the plane can be moved to any other -tuple by a
continuous motion with at most intermediate changes of the order
type. Even for tuples with the same order type, the cubic bound is sharp: there
exist pairs of -tuples of the same order type requiring
intermediate changes.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Quantitative upper bounds on the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres
The Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two metric spaces measures how far the
spaces are from being isometric. It has played an important and longstanding
role in geometry and shape comparison. More recently, it has been discovered
that the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between unit spheres equipped with the
geodesic metric has important connections to Borsuk-Ulam theorems and
Vietoris-Rips complexes.
We develop a discrete framework for obtaining upper bounds on the
Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres, and provide the first quantitative
bounds that apply to spheres of all possible pairs of dimensions. As a special
case, we determine the exact Gromov-Hausdorff distance between the circle and
any even-dimensional sphere, and determine the asymptotic behavior of the
distance from the 2-sphere to the -sphere up to constants.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Embedding dimension gaps in sparse codes
We study the open and closed embedding dimensions of a convex 3-sparse code
, which records the intersection pattern of lines in the Fano
plane. We show that the closed embedding dimension of is three,
and the open embedding dimension is between four and six, providing the first
example of a 3-sparse code with closed embedding dimension three and differing
open and closed embedding dimensions. We also investigate codes whose canonical
form is quadratic, i.e. ``degree two" codes. We show that such codes are
realizable by axis-parallel boxes, generalizing a recent result of Zhou on
inductively pierced codes.
We pose several open questions regarding sparse and low-degree codes. In
particular, we conjecture that the open embedding dimension of certain 3-sparse
codes derived from Steiner triple systems grows to infinity.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figure
Enumeration of interval graphs and -representable complexes
For each fixed , we obtain asymptotic estimates for the number of
-representable simplicial complexes on vertices as a function of .
The case corresponds to counting interval graphs, and we obtain new
results in this well-studied case as well. Our results imply that the
-representable complexes comprise a vanishingly small fraction of
-collapsible complexes.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
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Colorful words and -Tverberg complexes
We give a complete combinatorial characterization of weakly -Tverberg complexes. These complexes record which intersection combinatorics of convex hulls necessarily arise in any sufficiently large general position point set in . This strengthens the concept of -representable complexes, which describe intersection combinatorics that arise in at least one point set. Our characterization allows us to construct for every fixed a graph that is not weakly -Tverberg for any , answering a question of De Loera, Hogan, Oliveros, and Yang.Mathematics Subject Classifications: 52A35, 52C45Keywords: Tverberg's theorem, word representable, -representable, nerve, general position, strong general position, fully independen