Topological Drawings meet Classical Theorems from Convex Geometry
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| author | Bergold, Helena Felsner, Stefan Scheucher, Manfred Schröder, Felix Steiner, Raphael |
| author_facet | Bergold, Helena Felsner, Stefan Scheucher, Manfred Schröder, Felix Steiner, Raphael |
| contents | In this article we discuss classical theorems from Convex Geometry in the context of topological drawings and beyond. In a simple topological drawing of the complete graph $K_n$, any two edges share at most one point: either a common vertex or a point where they cross. Triangles of simple topological drawings can be viewed as convex sets. This gives a link to convex geometry.
As our main result, we present a generalization of Kirchberger's Theorem that is of purely combinatorial nature. It turned out that this classical theorem also applies to "generalized signotopes" - a combinatorial generalization of simple topological drawings, which we introduce and investigate in the course of this article. As indicated by the name they are a generalization of signotopes, a structure studied in the context of encodings for arrangements of pseudolines.
We also present a family of simple topological drawings with arbitrarily large Helly number, and a new proof of a topological generalization of Carathéodory's Theorem in the plane and discuss further classical theorems from Convex Geometry in the context of simple topological drawings. |
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| spellingShingle | Topological Drawings meet Classical Theorems from Convex Geometry Bergold, Helena Felsner, Stefan Scheucher, Manfred Schröder, Felix Steiner, Raphael Combinatorics Computational Geometry Discrete Mathematics 05C10, 52Cxx, 52A35 In this article we discuss classical theorems from Convex Geometry in the context of topological drawings and beyond. In a simple topological drawing of the complete graph $K_n$, any two edges share at most one point: either a common vertex or a point where they cross. Triangles of simple topological drawings can be viewed as convex sets. This gives a link to convex geometry. As our main result, we present a generalization of Kirchberger's Theorem that is of purely combinatorial nature. It turned out that this classical theorem also applies to "generalized signotopes" - a combinatorial generalization of simple topological drawings, which we introduce and investigate in the course of this article. As indicated by the name they are a generalization of signotopes, a structure studied in the context of encodings for arrangements of pseudolines. We also present a family of simple topological drawings with arbitrarily large Helly number, and a new proof of a topological generalization of Carathéodory's Theorem in the plane and discuss further classical theorems from Convex Geometry in the context of simple topological drawings. |
| title | Topological Drawings meet Classical Theorems from Convex Geometry |
| topic | Combinatorics Computational Geometry Discrete Mathematics 05C10, 52Cxx, 52A35 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12568 |