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Main Author: Savchuk, Pavlo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07951
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contents We present new methods and results for constructing optimal Kobon triangle arrangements. First, we introduce a compact table notation for describing arrangements of pseudolines, enabling the representation and analysis of complex cases, including symmetrical arrangements, arrangements with parallel lines, and arrangements with multiple-line intersection points. Building on this, we provide a simple heuristic method and tools for recovering straight-line arrangements from a given table, with the ability to enforce additional properties such as symmetries. The tool successfully recovers arrangements for many previously known optimal solutions. Additionally, we develop a tool that transforms the search for optimal Kobon arrangement tables into a SAT problem, allowing us to leverage modern SAT solvers (specifically Kissat) to efficiently find new solutions or to show that no other solutions exist (for example, confirming that no optimal solution exists in the 11-line case). Using these techniques, we find new optimal Kobon arrangements for 23 and 27 lines, along with several other new results.
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spellingShingle Constructing Optimal Kobon Triangle Arrangements via Table Encoding, SAT Solving, and Heuristic Straightening
Savchuk, Pavlo
Combinatorics
We present new methods and results for constructing optimal Kobon triangle arrangements. First, we introduce a compact table notation for describing arrangements of pseudolines, enabling the representation and analysis of complex cases, including symmetrical arrangements, arrangements with parallel lines, and arrangements with multiple-line intersection points. Building on this, we provide a simple heuristic method and tools for recovering straight-line arrangements from a given table, with the ability to enforce additional properties such as symmetries. The tool successfully recovers arrangements for many previously known optimal solutions. Additionally, we develop a tool that transforms the search for optimal Kobon arrangement tables into a SAT problem, allowing us to leverage modern SAT solvers (specifically Kissat) to efficiently find new solutions or to show that no other solutions exist (for example, confirming that no optimal solution exists in the 11-line case). Using these techniques, we find new optimal Kobon arrangements for 23 and 27 lines, along with several other new results.
title Constructing Optimal Kobon Triangle Arrangements via Table Encoding, SAT Solving, and Heuristic Straightening
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07951