Asymptotic dimension of intersection graphs

Abstract

We show that intersection graphs of compact convex sets in R^n of bounded aspect ratio have asymptotic dimension at most 2n+1. More generally, we show this is the case for intersection graphs of systems of subsets of any metric space of Assouad-Nagata dimension n that satisfy the following condition: For each r,s>0 and every point p, the number of pairwise-disjoint elements of diameter at least s in the system that are at distance at most r from p is bounded by a function of r/s.

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