Empty Convex Hexagons in Planar Point Sets

  • Authors:
  • Tobias Gerken

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München, Zentrum Mathematik, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85747, Garching, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Erdős asked whether every sufficiently large set of points in general position in the plane contains six points that form a convex hexagon without any points from the set in its interior. Such a configuration is called an empty convex hexagon. In this paper, we answer the question in the affirmative. We show that every set that contains the vertex set of a convex 9-gon also contains an empty convex hexagon.