Questions tagged [convex-hulls]
The convex hull of a set $X$ of points in a Euclidean space is the smallest convex set that contains $X$.
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Convex hull of prefix sum of $n$ ordered random points
Suppose we have $n$ ordered realizations of a random variable uniformly distributed over the unit cube $P = (p_1, p_2, \cdots, p_n), p_i \in [0,1]^d $. And we obtain the prefix sum $S = (p_1, p_1+p_2, ...
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Polytope with most faces
Fix $m,n \in \mathbb{N}$ with $m \ge n+1$. Take $m$ points in general position in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and let $P$ be their convex hull. What is the maximal number of (external, codimension-one) faces that $...
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How to apply Hahn-Banach to the convex hull?
I am trying to understand the proof of Lemma 4.1.2 in Michel Talagrand's publication from 1995 on concentration inequalities (see below for the precise question statement):
A bit of context: ...
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Defining planar geometric shape hulls via graph connectivity
A fundamental problem in Computational Geometry is to generalize convex hulls to simple polygons that partition a given finite set $\boldsymbol{P}$ into two sets $\boldsymbol{C}$ of corners and $\...
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Number of orthants intersected by a convex hull
I'm trying to figure out the following problem:
Let $x_1,\ldots,x_k\in\mathbb{R}^n$ be some points for some $k<n$. Let $\mbox{conv} (x_1,\ldots,x_k)$ be their convex hull. I'm looking for a tight (...
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Counterexample to a generalization of planar convex hulls
I am looking for a counter example to the following conjecture:
for every finite compact region $\mathcal{R}\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ that is defined by a rectifiable Jordan curve
and every fixed and ...
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How does one translate from convex hull to a set of facets (inequalities)? [duplicate]
Suppose I have defined a convex set as the convex hull of a set of points. (I know that all these points are "extremal points" of the convex set.) I know want to translate this description of the ...
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Convex hull in a discrete space [closed]
I know some algorithms which compute the convex hull in a continuous space.
Are there efficient algorithms to compute it in a discrete domain?
For example in 3D discrete space, given the blue points, ...
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Algorithm to compute the convex hull of a set of $m$ possibly intersecting convex polygons in the plane
I am trying to find an algorithm to compute the convex hull of a set of $m$ possibly intersecting convex polygons in the plane, with a total of $n$ vertices. Let $h$ denote the number of vertices on ...
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Convex hull of all rank-$1$ $\{-1, 1\}$-matrices?
Consider the set $\mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ of $m \times n$ matrices. I am particularly interested in properties of polytope $P$ defined as a convex hull of all $\{-1,1\}$ matrices of rank $1$, that is,...
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Algorithm for Calculating Spheric Convex Hulls of Finite Pointsets
Let the Spheric Convex Hull ($\mathrm{CH}_S$) denote the intersection of all closed spheres that contain a compact $\Sigma\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ and on their boundary at least $n+1$ distinct points of $...
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Compute the edge-skeleton of a polytope given by its vertices
Let $P$ be a polytope given by a vertex description, i.e., $P=conv(\{x_1,\ldots,x_m\})\subset\mathbb{R}^n$.
Is there an efficient (i.e., not relying on Linear Programming) algorithm to compute the ...
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Convex hull of piece-wise linear functions
Let $K>1$ be a positive integer. Consider a function class $$\mathcal{F}_K:=\Big\{\max_{1\leq k\leq K} a_k^\top x + b_k:\ ||a_k||\leq 1, |b_k|\leq 1, \forall 1\leq k\leq K \Big\}$$ on some compact ...
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Are the sets whose convex hull surface admits multiple representations a shy set of sets?
Consider a compact subset $A$ of $R^n$. Let me call $A$ special if any point $x$ that is on the boundary of $\textsf{conv.hull}(A)$ admits a unique representation as a convex combination of points in $...
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How to show that the origin is not in the convex hull, in this problem?
I am given $3$ points $(x_i,y_i,z_i) \in \mathbb{R}^3\setminus \{\mathbf{0} \}$, for $i=1,2,3$, satisfying the following two polynomial equations (the first equation is actually not the intended one, ...
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Convex hull of the Stiefel manifold with non-negativity constraints
Consider the Stiefel manifold
$$\mathrm{St}(n,k) :=\{X \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times k} : X^TX = I_k\},$$
where $I_k$ is the $k$-dimensional identity matrix. It is well known that
$$\mathrm{conv} \left( ...
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Inequality on permutation polytope
Let $a = (a_1, \cdots, a_n), b = (b_1, \cdots, b_n), c = (c_1, \cdots, c_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n$ with $a_1 \geq \cdots \geq a_n, b_1 \geq \cdots \geq b_n, 0 < c_1 \leq \cdots \leq c_n$.
In addition, ...
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Finding the minimum-area parallelogram containing all vertices of a cuboid projected to a plane
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Let's say I have a 3d cuboid that I projected onto a 2d plane. Now I want to find the minimum-area parallelogram that contains all those projected vertices. How do ...
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quick hull algorithm detail
When using quick hull algorithm to find the polytope for half space intersection, we are required to provide an interior point to the solver qhalf.
In other words, providing
$$Ax \le b$$
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Facet Enumeration Problem nondegeneracy case
Hello in case of a nondegeneracy case of the Facet Enumeration Problem, there is a polynomial algorithm for the convex hull problem as written here https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/fukudak/polyfaq/...
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Approximation of convex hull in high dimension
What are efficient methods (polytime) to compute an approximation of the convex hull in high dimension (say, $30000$) for a given set of points?
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I am looking for an algorithm for getting the ...
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Convex hull of all-ones principal submatrices
For a subset $S$ of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$,
let $\mathbf{1}_S\in\{0,1\}^n$ denote the indicator vector of $S$, with a $1$ on the $i$th coordinate iff $i\in S$. Let $\mathcal{X}$ denote the convex-hull of ...
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How to show it is contained in a convex hull?
There are $(d+1)f$ points (denote the set of all points as $S$) in $\mathbb{R}^d$, that can be divide into $d+1$ disjoint sets $F_1,...,F_{d+1}$, each set of size $f$. If we have
$$
\mathcal{H}(F_i)\...
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Convex hull of total orders
Let $n$ be a positive integer and $\prec$ an arbitray total order on $\{1,\dots,n\}$. I associate to this order a vector $v$ with one coordinate for every pair $(i,j)$ s.t. $1\leq i\neq j \leq n$, by ...
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Convex Hull of Path Connected sets
This is a pretty easy question to ask, but haven't seen it anywhere.
Suppose I have some continuous path $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and I want to get the convex hull of $X$, $\operatorname{co}(X)$.
Is it ...
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Convex hull on a Riemannian manifold
Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian 2-manifold.
Define a subset $C$ of $M$ to be convex
if all shortest paths between any two points
$x,y \in C$ are completely contained within $C$.
For a finite set of ...
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Minimum norm of convex hull
I am currently stuck at a problem which seems too easy to be stuck at to me...
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Let $H$ be the convex hull of the points $d_1,\ldots, d_n\in \mathbb{R}^d$. How can one compute
\[\min_{x\in H}...
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Holomorphically Convex Hull a Subset of the convex hull of
This comes from Hörmander's "An Introduction to Complex Analysis in Several Variables".
We defined the $A(\Omega)$-hull (analytic functions in an open set $\Omega$). $\hat{K}$ of a compact set $K\...
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Where to submit a new convex hull algorithm?
Recently, I devised a new convex hull algorithm. Is there any forum where I can submit my work?
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Convex hull of $k$ random points
Suppose we have $k$ realizations of a random variable uniformly distributed over the unit cube $[0,1]^n$.
What is the probability that their convex hull has all of the $k$ points as extreme points?
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Convex hull in CAT(0)
Let $X$ be complete $\mathop{CAT}(0)$-space and $K\subset X$ be a compact subset.
Is it true that convex hull of $K$ is compact?
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Convex hull of $K$ = intersection of all closed convex sets ...
