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Computational Aspects of the Hausdorff Distance in Unbounded Dimension

Computational Geometry 2014-01-08 v1 Computational Complexity Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study the computational complexity of determining the Hausdorff distance of two polytopes given in halfspace- or vertex-presentation in arbitrary dimension. Subsequently, a matching problem is investigated where a convex body is allowed to be homothetically transformed in order to minimize its Hausdorff distance to another one. For this problem, we characterize optimal solutions, deduce a Helly-type theorem and give polynomial time (approximation) algorithms for polytopes.

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@article{arxiv.1401.1434,
  title  = {Computational Aspects of the Hausdorff Distance in Unbounded Dimension},
  author = {Stefan König},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.1434},
  year   = {2014}
}