More Turán-Type Theorems for Triangles in Convex Point Sets

  • Boris Aronov
  • Vida Dujmović
  • Pat Morin
  • Aurélien Ooms
  • Luı́s Fernando Schultz Xavier da Silveira

Abstract

 We study the following family of problems: Given a set of $n$ points in convex position, what is the maximum number triangles one can create having these points as vertices while avoiding certain sets of forbidden configurations.  As forbidden configurations we consider all 8 ways in which a pair of triangles in such a point set can interact.  This leads to 256 extremal Turán-type questions. We give nearly tight (within a $\log n$ factor) bounds for 248 of these questions and show that the remaining 8 questions are all asymptotically equivalent to Stein's longstanding tripod packing problem.

Published
2019-01-25
Article Number
P1.8