On the Hadwiger numbers of starlike disks

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2011.05.004MaRDI QIDQ648978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zsolt Lángi

Publication date 29 November 2011

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3918

zbMATH Keywords

Hadwiger numberstarlike diskstopological disk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Variants of convex sets (star-shaped, ((m, n))-convex, etc.) (52A30)

Abstract: The Hadwiger number $H(J)$ of a topological disk $J$ in $R{e}^2$ is the maximal number of pairwise nonoverlapping translates of $J$ that touch $J$. It is well known that for a convex disk, this number is six or eight. A conjecture of A. Bezdek., K. and W. Kuperberg says that the Hadwiger number of a starlike disk is at most eight. A. Bezdek proved that this number is at most seventy five for any starlike disk. In this note, we prove that the Hadwiger number of a starlike disk is at most thirty five. Furthermore, we show that the Hadwiger number of a topological disk $J$ such that $(convJ)setminusJ$ is connected, is six or eight.

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