Indecomposable coverings

  • Authors:
  • János Pach;Gábor Tardos;Géza Tóth

  • Affiliations:
  • City College, CUNY and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY;School of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada and Rényi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary;Rényi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • CJCDGCGT'05 Proceedings of the 7th China-Japan conference on Discrete geometry, combinatorics and graph theory
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We prove that for every k 1, there exist k-fold coverings of the plane (1) with strips, (2) with axis-parallel rectangles, and (3) with homothets of any fixed concave quadrilateral, that cannot be decomposed into two coverings. We also construct, for every k 1, a set of points P and a family of disks D in the plane, each containing at least k elements of P, such that no matter how we color the points of P with two colors, there exists a disk D ∈ D, all of whose points are of the same color.