A question from a famous paper of Erdős

DOI10.1007/S00454-013-9507-ZMaRDI QIDQ2391829zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edgardo Roldán-Pensado, Imre Bárány

Publication date 5 August 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-013-9507-z

zbMATH Keywords

Baire categoryconvex curveequidistant pointsErdős problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10) Baire category, Baire spaces (54E52)

Review text

Paul Erdős made once a claim that ``On every convex curve there exists a point \(P\) such that every circle with centre \(P\) intersects the curve in at most 2 points. This claim is known to be false. The paper investigates a modified problem: Given a convex domain \(K\) in the plane, what is the smallest number \(N\), such that there is point \(P\) on the boundary of the domain, such that any circle centered at \(P\) intersects the boundary of \(K\) in at most \(N\) points. \(N=2\) fails as noted above. The paper concludes that no \(K\) has \(N=\infty\) and that there are \(K\)'s with \(N=6\).

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