Notes: Coloring axis-parallel rectangles

  • Authors:
  • János Pach;Gábor Tardos

  • Affiliations:
  • City College and Courant Institute, New York, NY, United States and EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;Department of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

For every k and r, we construct a finite family of axis-parallel rectangles in the plane such that no matter how we color them with k colors, there exists a point covered by precisely r members of the family, all of which have the same color. For r=2, this answers a question of S. Smorodinsky [S. Smorodinsky, On the chromatic number of some geometric hypergraphs, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 21 (2007) 676-687].