Type: Inproceedings

On a forgotten conjecture from a famous paper of Erdos

Bárány, Imre; Roldán-Pensado, Edgardo;

Book Title: SoCG´13 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual symposiu,

Editor: Guilherme D. da Fonseca; ThomasLewiner

Abstract:

In his paper "On sets of distances of n points", Paul Erdos conjectured that every convex curve contains a point P such that every circle centered at P intersects the curve in at most 2 points. This conjecture is false: If T is an equilateral triangle ...