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General Position for Planar Line Arrangements and $HD_2(p,3)$

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hadwiger-debrunner-line-arrangementsGeometry & topologyposed by Hugo Hadwiger, Hans Debrunner, 1957recorded: partial

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For every δ>0\delta > 0 and infinitely many nn there is a set of nn lines in the plane with no intersecting quadruple such that every subset of size at least n4/5+δn^{4/5+\delta} contains three concurrent lines. This improves the bound for a dual form of a theorem of Balogh and Solymosi, and yields an improved lower bound for the Hadwiger-Debrunner number HD2(p,3)HD_2(p,3).

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improved bounds; the exact Hadwiger-Debrunner numbers remain open

Hadwiger-Debrunner numbers sit in the classical (p,q)-problem tradition solved by Alon and Kleitman, and their growth rates are actively tracked in discrete geometry.

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    improved bounds; the exact Hadwiger-Debrunner numbers remain open

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