Simple proofs of classical theorems in discrete geometry via the Guth-Katz polynomial partitioning technique (Q714991)
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Simple proofs of classical theorems in discrete geometry via the Guth-Katz polynomial partitioning technique (English)
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15 October 2012
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The paper reproves some classical theorems of discrete geometry (the Szemerédi-Trotter theorem and the Pach-Sharir theorem bounding the number of incidences between points and lines, and the theorem of Chazelle and Welzl about spanning trees with low crossing number) using the Guth-Katz partitioning of finite point sets in a Euclidean space based on the Stone-Tukey ham-sandwich theorem. The proofs are self-contained and appropriate for teaching.
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incidences
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algebraic methods
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crossing number
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spanning tree with low crossing number
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polynomial ham-sandwich
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partitioning polynomial
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