A purely combinatorial proof of the Hadwiger Debrunner (p, q) conjecture

N. Alon*, D. J. Kleitman

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Abstract

A family of sets has the (p, q) property if among any p members of the family some q have a nonempty intersection. The authors have proved that for every p ≥ q ≥ d + 1 there is a c = c(p, q, d) < ∞ such that for every family F of compact, convex sets in Rd which has the (p, q) property there is a set of at most c points in Rd that intersects each member of F, thus settling an old problem of Hadwiger and Debrunner. Here we present a purely combinatorial proof of this result.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberR1
Pages (from-to)1-8
Number of pages8
JournalElectronic Journal of Combinatorics
Volume4
Issue number2 R
StatePublished - 1997

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