Dol’nikov's colorful piercing conjecture for arbitrarily many families

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Let KK be a compact convex set in R2\mathbb{R}^{2}. Let F1,…,Fn\mathcal{F}_{1}, \dots, \mathcal{F}_{n} be finite families of translates of KK, with n≥2n \geq 2. Suppose that A∩B≠∅A \cap B \neq \emptyset for every A∈FiA \in \mathcal{F}_{i} and B∈FjB \in \mathcal{F}_{j} with i≠ji \neq j.

Dol’nikov's generalized conjecture. There exists j∈{1,2,…,n}j \in \{1,2,\dots,n\} such that ⋃i≠jFi\bigcup_{i \neq j} \mathcal{F}_{i} can be pierced by 33 points.

The statement strengthens the three-family conjecture and is motivated by colorful analogues of classical piercing theorems. The source records related results for circles, but leaves this general translate version as a conjecture.

References

Primary source

Cuauhtemoc Gomez-Navarro and Edgardo Roldán-Pensado, “Transversals to colorful intersecting convex sets”, arXiv:2305.16760 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1310.4714.

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