Octants are cover-decomposable into many coverings

  • Authors:
  • Balázs Keszegh;Dömötör Pálvölgyi

  • Affiliations:
  • Alfréd Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary;Institute of Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

We prove that octants are cover-decomposable into multiple coverings, i.e., for any k there is an m(k) such that any m(k)-fold covering of any subset of the space with a finite number of translates of a given octant can be decomposed into k coverings. As a corollary, we obtain that any m(k)-fold covering of any subset of the plane with a finite number of homothetic copies of a given triangle can be decomposed into k coverings. Previously only some weaker bounds were known for related problems [20].