Tverberg-Type Theorems with Trees and Cycles as (Nerve) Intersection Patterns

Jesús A. De Loera, Thomas A. Hogan, Deborah Oliveros, Dominic Yang

Abstract: Tverberg's theorem says that a set with sufficiently many points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ can always be partitioned into $m$ parts so that the $(m-1)$-simplex is the (nerve) intersection pattern of the convex hulls of the parts. The main results of our paper demonstrate that Tverberg's theorem is but a special case of a more general situation. Given sufficiently many points, all trees and cycles can also be induced by at least one partition of a point set.