New existence proofs ε-nets

  • Authors:
  • Evangelia Pyrga;Saurabh Ray

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck Institut fur Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany;Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We describe a new technique for proving the existence of small μ-nets for hypergraphs satisfying certain simple conditions. The technique is particularly useful for proving o(1/μ log 1/μ) upper bounds which the standard VC-dimension theory does not allow. We apply the technique to several geometric hypergraphs and obtain simple proofs for the existence of O(1/μ) size μ-nets for them. This includes the geometric hypergraph in which the vertex set is a set of points in the plane and the hyperedges are defined by a set of pseudo-disks. This result was not known previously. We also get a very short proof for O(1/μ) size μ-nets for half-spaces in R3.