The combinatorial complexity of hyperplane transversals

  • Authors:
  • Sylvain E. Cappell;Jacob E. Goodman;János Pach;R. Pollack;Micha Sharir;Rephael Wenger

  • Affiliations:
  • Courant Institute, NYU, New York, NY;City College, CUNY, New York, NY;Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pf. 127, Budapest, Hungary;Courant Institute, NYU, New York, NY;Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel;DIMACS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

  • Venue:
  • SCG '90 Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We show that the maximum combinatorial complexity of the space of hyperplane transversals to a family of n separated and strictly convex sets in Rd is &THgr;(n⌊d/2⌋), which generalizes results of Edelsbrunner and Sharir in the plane. As a key step in the argument, we show that the space of hyperplanes tangent to &kgr; ≤ d separated and strictly convex sets in Rd is a topological (d - &kgr;)-sphere.