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Piercing quasi-rectangles-On a problem of Danzer and Rogers

Pach, Janos  
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Tardos, Gabor
2012
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A

It is an old problem of Danzer and Rogers to decide whether it is possible to arrange 0(1/epsilon) points in the unit square so that every rectangle of area epsilon > 0 within the unit square contains at least one of them. We show that the answer to this question is in the negative if we slightly relax the notion of rectangles, as follows.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.jcta.2012.03.011
Web of Science ID

WOS:000305820200001

Author(s)
Pach, Janos  
Tardos, Gabor
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Volume

119

Issue

7

Start page

1391

End page

1397

Subjects

Danzer-Rogers problem

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Piercing

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Quasi-rectangles

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Epsilon-nets

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Weak Epsilon-Nets

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Points

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Bounds

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July 27, 2012
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