Abstract
Answering an old question in combinatorial geometry, we show that any configuration consisting of a set V of n points in general position in the plane and a set of 6 n - 5 closed straight line segments whose endpoints lie in V, contains three pairwise disjoint line segments.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 287-290 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Discrete & Computational Geometry |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1989 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Geometry and Topology
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
- Computational Theory and Mathematics