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Colourful Simplicial Depth

Antoine Deza, Sui Huang, Tamon Stephen, Tamás Terlaky

math.COarXiv:math/0506003

Abstract

Inspired by Barany's colourful Caratheodory theorem, we introduce a colourful generalization of Liu's simplicial depth. We prove a parity property and conjecture that the minimum colourful simplicial depth of any core point in any d-dimensional configuration is d2+1 and that the maximum is d(d+1)+1. We exhibit configurations attaining each of these depths and apply our results to the problem of bounding monochrome (non-colourful) simplicial depth.

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