On the complexity of arrangements of circles in the plane

被引:16
作者
Alon, N [1 ]
Last, H
Pinchasi, R
Sharir, M
机构
[1] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Math Sci, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[2] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Inst Math, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
[3] NYU, Courant Inst Math Sci, New York, NY 10012 USA
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10.1007/s00454-001-0043-x
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TP301 [理论、方法];
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081202 ;
摘要
Continuing and extending the analysis in a previous paper [15], we establish several combinatorial results on the complexity of arrangements of circles in the plane. The main results are a collection of partial solutions to the conjecture that (a) any arrangement of unit circles with at least one intersecting pair has a vertex incident to at most three circles, and (b) any arrangement of circles of arbitrary radii with at least one intersecting pair has a vertex incident to at most three circles, under appropriate assumptions on the number of intersecting pairs of circles (see below for a more precise statement).
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页数:28
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