Department of Computer Science | Institute of Theoretical Computer Science | CADMO
Prof. Emo Welzl and Prof. Bernd Gärtner
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Date and Time: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 12:15 pm
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Location: OAT S15/S16/S17
Speaker: Marek Sulovský
The question is intuitively the following: given a set of n points in the plane, can one always choose two points a, b from P such that every disk D containing a and b contains many points of P, i.e. |D \cap P| >= tn + o(n) for some constant t. What is the maximum value c of this constant?
Edelsbunner et al. proved in 1989 that c > 1/4.7 but the proof was quite long and even worse, not completely correct. Although the mistake was fixed by later papers of Lovász et al.'04 and independently by Abrego et al.'05 the resulting proof of the lower bound is still quite complicated.
I will present a recent very short proof of this bound by P. Ramos and R. Viana from this year [paper].
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