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Rederiving the Upper Bound for Halving Edges using Cardano's Formula

Computational Geometry 2018-02-13 v1

Abstract

In this paper we rederive an old upper bound on the number of halving edges present in the halving graph of an arbitrary set of nn points in 2-dimensions which are placed in general position. We provide a different analysis of an identity discovered by Andrejak et al, to rederive this upper bound of O(n4/3)O(n^{4/3}). In the original paper of Andrejak et al. the proof is based on a naive analysis whereas in this paper we obtain the same upper bound by tightening the analysis thereby opening a new door to derive these upper bounds using the identity. Our analysis is based on a result of Cardano for finding the roots of a cubic equation. We believe that our technique has the potential to derive improved bounds on the number of halving edges.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.03730,
  title  = {Rederiving the Upper Bound for Halving Edges using Cardano's Formula},
  author = {Pintu Chauhan and Manjish Pal and Napendra Solanki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03730},
  year   = {2018}
}
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