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Given a set of $n$ points in the Euclidean plane, such that just $k$ points are strictly inside the convex hull of the whole set, we want to find the shortest tour visiting every point. The fastest known algorithm for the version when $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Pawel Gawrychowski , Damian Rusak

We present new iterative algorithms for solving a square linear system $Ax=b$ in dimension $n$ by employing the {\it Triangle Algorithm} \cite{kal12}, a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for testing if the convex hull of a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Bahman Kalantari

We study the following range searching problem: Preprocess a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane with respect to a set $\mathcal{O}$ of $k$ orientations % , for a constant, in the plane so that given an $\mathcal{O}$-oriented convex polygon…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Eunjin Oh , Hee-Kap Ahn

CAT(0) metric spaces and hyperbolic spaces play an important role in combinatorial and geometric group theory. In this paper, we present efficient algorithms for distance problems in CAT(0) planar complexes. First of all, we present an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Daniela Maftuleac

In this paper, an effective method with time complexity of $\mathcal{O}(K^{3/2}N^2\log \frac{K}{\epsilon_0})$ is introduced to find an approximation of the convex hull for $N$ points in dimension $n$, where $K$ is close to the number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Hossein Sartipizadeh , Tyrone L. Vincent

Given a set S of n points in the plane and a fixed angle 0 < omega < pi, we show how to find in O(n log n) time all triangles of minimum area with one angle omega that enclose S. We prove that in general, the solution cannot be written…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-31 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel

Prune-and-search is an important paradigm for solving many important geometric problems. We show that the general prune-and-search technique can be implemented where the objects are given in read-only memory. As examples we consider…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Minati De , Subhas C. Nandy , Sasanka Roy

Computing the diameter of the intersection graphs of objects is a basic problem in computational geometry. Previous works showed that the complexity of computing the diameter mainly depends on the object types: for unit disks and squares in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

In this paper, we study several important geometric optimization problems arising in machine learning. First, we revisit the Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB) problem in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$. The problem has been extensively studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Hu Ding

Hypervolume indicator is a commonly accepted quality measure for comparing Pareto approximation set generated by multi-objective optimizers. The best known algorithm to calculate it for $n$ points in $d$-dimensional space has a run time of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Qing Yang , Shengchao Ding

It is a major open problem whether the $(\min,+)$-product of two $n\times n$ matrices has a truly sub-cubic (i.e. $O(n^{3-\epsilon})$ for $\epsilon>0$) time algorithm, in particular since it is equivalent to the famous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Karl Bringmann , Fabrizio Grandoni , Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

The hull of a linear code over finite fields is the intersection of the code and its dual, and linear codes with small hulls have applications in computational complexity and information protection. Linear codes with the smallest hull are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shitao Li , Minjia Shi , Jon-Lark Kim

We revisit a classical problem in computational geometry: finding the largest-volume axis-aligned empty box (inside a given bounding box) amidst $n$ given points in $d$ dimensions. Previously, the best algorithms known have running time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Timothy M. Chan

We provide the currently fastest randomized (1+epsilon)-approximation algorithm for the closest vector problem in the infinity norm. The running time of our method depends on the dimension n and the approximation guarantee epsilon by 2^O(n)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Nicolai Hähnle , Martin Niemeier

We give the first truly subquadratic time algorithm, with $O^*(n^{2-1/18})$ running time, for computing the diameter of an $n$-vertex unit-disk graph, resolving a central open problem in the literature. Our result is obtained as an instance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

Let $P$ be an orthogonal polygon of $n$ vertices, without holes. The Orthogonal Polygon Covering with Squares (OPCS) problem takes as input such an orthogonal polygon $P$ with integral vertex coordinates, and asks to find the minimum number…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Anubhav Dhar , Subham Ghosh , Sudeshna Kolay

A high-level description of an algorithm which computes the minimum perimeter triangle enclosing a convex polygon in linear time exists in the literature. Besides that an implementation of the algorithm is given in the subsequent work.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-08 V. Ermolaev

We consider geometric problems on planar $n^2$-point sets in the congested clique model. Initially, each node in the $n$-clique network holds a batch of $n$ distinct points in the Euclidean plane given by $O(\log n)$-bit coordinates. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jesper Jansson , Christos Levcopoulos , Andrzej Lingas , Valentin Polishchuk

A partial cube is a graph having an isometric embedding in a hypercube. Partial cubes are characterized by a natural equivalence relation on the edges, whose classes are called zones. The number of zones determines the minimal dimension of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Jean Cardinal , Stefan Felsner

Let $P$ be a planar set of $n$ points in general position. We consider the problem of computing an orientation of the plane for which the Rectilinear Convex Hull of $P$ has minimum area. Bae et al. (Computational Geometry: Theory and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Carlos Alegría-Galicia , Tzolkin Garduño , Carlos Seara , Areli Rosas-Navarrete , Jorge Urrutia