Hereditary Discrepancies in Different Numbers of Colors II

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Doerr;Mahmoud Fouz

  • Affiliations:
  • doerr@mpi-sb.mpg.de;mahmoudfouz@gmail.com

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We bound the hereditary discrepancy of a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ in two colors in terms of its hereditary discrepancy in $c$ colors. We show that $\mathrm{herdisc}(\mathcal{H},2)\leq Kc$ $\mathrm{herdisc}(\mathcal{H},c)$, where $K$ is some absolute constant. This bound is sharp apart from the absolute constant.