Empty U.S. Roads Should Be Safer. They're Not.
Citation:
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Empty U.S. Roads Should Be Safer. They're Not." Bloomberg Opinion (June 3, 2020). View Details|
Article Graphs and Combinatorics Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon |
Abstract
We prove the following generalised empty pentagon theorem for every integer ℓ ≥ 2, every sufficiently large set of points in the plane contains ℓ collinear points or an empty pentagon. As an application, we settle the next open case of the “big line or big clique” conjecture of Kára, Pór, and Wood [Discrete Comput. Geom. 34(3):497–506, 2005].
Keywords: Erdős-Szekeres theorem; happy end problem; big line or big clique conjecture; empty quadrilateral; empty pentagon; empty hexagon;
Citation:
Abel, Zachary, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór, and David Wood. "Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon." Graphs and Combinatorics 27, no. 1 (January 2011): 47–60.
