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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2017

Bounding Helly Numbers via Betti Numbers

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We show that very weak topological assumptions are enough to ensure the existence of a Helly-type theorem. More precisely, we show that for any non-negative integers b and d there exists an integer h(b,d) such that the following holds. If F is a finite family of subsets of R^d such that the ith reduced Betti number (with Z_2 coefficients in singular homology) of the intersection of any proper subfamily G of F is at most b for every non-negative integer i less or equal to (d-1)/2, then F has Helly number at most h(b,d). These topological conditions are sharp: not controlling any of these first Betti numbers allow for families with unbounded Helly number. Our proofs combine homological non-embeddability results with a Ramsey-based approach to build, given an arbitrary simplicial complex K, some well-behaved chain map from C_*(K) to C_*(R^d).

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hal-01744167 , version 1 (27-03-2018)

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Xavier Goaoc, Pavel Paták, Zuzana Patáková, Martin Tancer, Uli Wagner. Bounding Helly Numbers via Betti Numbers. Martin Loebl, Jaroslav Nešetřil, Robin Thomas. A Journey Through Discrete Mathematics: A Tribute to Jiří Matoušek , Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, pp.407-447, 2017, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-44479-6_17⟩. ⟨hal-01744167⟩
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