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The work of Nabil H. Mustafa in this paper has been supported by the grant ANR SAGA (JCJC-14-CE25-0016-01).
Kunal Dutta and Arijit Ghosh are supported by the European Research Council under the Advanced Grant 339025 GUDHI (Algorithmic Foundations of Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) and the Ramanujan Fellowship (No. SB/S2/RJN-064/2015) respectively. Part of this work was also done when Kunal Dutta and Arijit Ghosh were researchers in D1: Algorithms & Complexity, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany, supported by the Indo-German Max Planck Center for Computer Science (IMPECS).
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Mustafa, N.H., Dutta, K. & Ghosh, A. A Simple Proof of Optimal Epsilon Nets. Combinatorica 38, 1269–1277 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-017-3564-5
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