{ "id": "1811.02455", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-11-06T16:07:55.000Z", "updated": "2018-11-06T16:07:55.000Z", "title": "On the Number of Order Types in Integer Grids of Small Size", "authors": [ "Luis E. Caraballo", "José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez", "Ruy Fabila-Monroy", "Carlos Hidalgo-Toscano", "Jesús Leaños", "Amanda Montejano" ], "categories": [ "cs.CG", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Let $\\{p_1,\\dots,p_n\\}$ and $\\{q_1,\\dots,q_n\\}$ be two sets of $n$ labeled points in general position in the plane. We say that these two point sets have the same order type if for every triple of indices $(i,j,k)$, $p_k$ is above the directed line from $p_i$ to $p_j$ if and only if $q_k$ is above the directed line from $q_i$ to $q_j$. In this paper we give the first non-trivial lower bounds on the number of different order types of $n$ points that can be realized in integer grids of polynomial", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-11-06T16:07:55.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "order type", "integer grids", "small size", "first non-trivial lower bounds", "directed line" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }