How to Cover a Point Set with a V-Shape of Minimum Width
Abstract
A balanced V-shape is a polygonal region in the plane contained in the union of two crossing equal-width strips. It is delimited by two pairs of parallel rays that emanate from two points x, y, are contained in the strip boundaries, and are mirror-symmetric with respect to the line xy. The width of a balanced V-shape is the width of the strips. We first present an O(n^2 log n) time algorithm to compute, given a set of n points P, a minimum-width balanced V-shape covering P. We then describe a PTAS for computing a (1+epsilon)-approximation of this V-shape in time O((n/epsilon)log n+(n/epsilon^(3/2))log^2(1/epsilon)). A much simpler constant-factor approximation algorithm is also described.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1108.2063,
title = {How to Cover a Point Set with a V-Shape of Minimum Width},
author = {Boris Aronov and Muriel Dulieu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2063},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS), p.61-72, August 2011, New York, NY, USA