On number of circles intersected by a line

DOI10.1006/JCTA.2001.3243MaRDI QIDQ1601443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lu Yang, Jingzhong Zhang, Weinian Zhang

Publication date 25 November 2003

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jcta.2001.3243

zbMATH Keywords

circles in the planecombinatorial geometrycompact convex subsets of the plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial geometries and geometric closure systems (51D20) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Review text

The authors consider the following problem: Consider a set \({\mathcal U}\) of circles in the plane with the property that every line of the plane intersects at least one of the circles. Let \(m\) be a positive integer. Is there a line in the plane intersecting at least \(m\) circles of the set \({\mathcal U}\)? The authors answer this question in the affirmative. In fact, they prove something stronger. They show that for every positive integer \(m\) and every point \(P\) of the plane, there exists a line through \(P\) which intersects at least \(m\) circles in \({\mathcal U}\). Furthermore, the authors generalize this result to a set consisting of compact convex subsets of the plane with the property that their rectangular ratios have a uniform upper bound \(L> 0\).

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