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Center of maximum-sum matchings of bichromatic points

Combinatorics 2023-01-18 v1 Computational Geometry

Abstract

Let RR and BB be two disjoint point sets in the plane with R=B=n|R|=|B|=n. Let M={(ri,bi),i=1,2,,n}\mathcal{M}=\{(r_i,b_i),i=1,2,\ldots,n\} be a perfect matching that matches points of RR with points of BB and maximizes i=1nribi\sum_{i=1}^n\|r_i-b_i\|, the total Euclidean distance of the matched pairs. In this paper, we prove that there exists a point oo of the plane (the center of M\mathcal{M}) such that rio+bio2 ribi\|r_i-o\|+\|b_i-o\|\le \sqrt{2}~\|r_i-b_i\| for all i{1,2,,n}i\in\{1,2,\ldots,n\}.

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@article{arxiv.2301.06649,
  title  = {Center of maximum-sum matchings of bichromatic points},
  author = {Pablo Pérez-Lantero and Carlos Seara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06649},
  year   = {2023}
}