A colorful Goodman-Pollack-Wenger theorem

Abstract

Hadwiger's transversal theorem gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a line transversal to a family of pairwise disjoint convex sets in the plane. These conditions were subsequently generalized to hyperplane transversals to general families of convex sets in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ by Goodman, Pollack, and Wenger. Here we show a colorful genealization of their theorem which confirms a conjecture of Arocha, Bracho, and Montejano. The proof is topological and uses the Borsuk-Ulam theorem.

The contents of this manuscript was published as part of the paper: O. Cheong, X. Goaoc, A. F. Holmsen, Some New Results on Geometric Transversals. Discrete Comput Geom (2023)