Title
Crossing Families
Abstract
Given a set of points in the plane, a crossing family is a collection of line segments, each joining two of the points, such that any two line segments intersect internally. Two setsA andB of points in the plane are mutually avoiding if no line subtended by a pair of points inA intersects the convex hull ofB, and vice versa. We show that any set ofn points in general position contains a pair of mutually avoiding subsets each of size at least <img src="/fulltext-image.asp?format=htmlnonpaginated&src=H134H2P7H854067T_html\493_2005_Article_BF01215345_TeX2GIFIE1.gif" border="0" alt=" $$\sqrt {n/12} $$ " />. As a consequence we show that such a set possesses a crossing family of size at least <img src="/fulltext-image.asp?format=htmlnonpaginated&src=H134H2P7H854067T_html\493_2005_Article_BF01215345_TeX2GIFIE2.gif" border="0" alt=" $$\sqrt {n/12} $$ " />, and describe a fast algorithm for finding such a family.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1007/BF01215345
Combinatorica
Keywords
DocType
Volume
52 C 10, 68 Q 20
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1439-6912
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.79
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Boris Aronov11430149.20
Paul Erdös219142.33
Wayne Goddard350.79
Daniel J. Kleitman4854277.98
Michael Klugerman5737.52
János Pach62366292.28
Leonard J. Schulman71328136.88