Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4650420 Discrete Mathematics 2008 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

Given n red and n   blue points in convex position in the plane, we show that there exists a noncrossing alternating path of length n+cn/logn. We disprove a conjecture of Erdős by constructing an example without any such path of length greater than 4/3n+c′n.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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