Generalizations of Heilbronn's triangle problem

  • Authors:
  • Hanno Lefmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Fakultät für Informatik, TU Chemnitz, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

For given integers d,j=2 and any positive integers n, distributions of n points in the d-dimensional unit cube [0,1]^d are investigated, where the minimum volume of the convex hull determined by j of these n points is large. In particular, for fixed integers d,k=2 the existence of a configuration of n points in [0,1]^d is shown, such that, simultaneously for j=2,...,k, the volume of the convex hull of any j points among these n points is @W(1/n^(^j^-^1^)^/^(^1^+^|^d^-^j^+^1^|^)). Moreover, a deterministic algorithm is given achieving this lower bound, provided that d+1@?j@?k.