The Hadwiger number of Jordan regions is unbounded

DOI10.1007/S00454-007-1346-3MaRDI QIDQ2369936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mira Lee, Otfried Cheong

Publication date 21 June 2007

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0702079

zbMATH Keywords

Hadwiger numberJordan region

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonconvex bodies (11H16) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15) Discrete geometry (52C99)

Abstract: We show that for every n > 0 there is a planar topological disk A_0 and n translates A_1, A_2, ..., A_n of A_0 such that the interiors of A_0, ... A_n are pairwise disjoint, but with each A_i touching A_0 for 1 <= i <= n.

Review text

The authors establish the following surprising property of 2-dimensional topological disks. For any \(n\geq 1\) there is such a disk \(A\) and \(n\) translates \(A_1,A_2,\dots,A_n\) of it such that the interiors of the translates are pairwise disjoint but each \(A_i\) touches \(A\) for \(1\leq i\leq n\). The authors construct explicitly such a disk \(A\).

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