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The metric sketching problem is defined as follows. Given a metric on $n$ points, and $\epsilon>0$, we wish to produce a small size data structure (sketch) that, given any pair of point indices, recovers the distance between the points up…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

We introduce and study a general concept of multiple fixed point for mappings defined on partially ordered distance spaces in the presence of a contraction type condition and appropriate monotonicity properties. This notion and the obtained…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Mitrofan M. Choban , Vasile Berinde

We study the problem of $k$-means clustering in the space of straight-line segments in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ under the Hausdorff distance. For this problem, we give a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm that, for an input of $n$ segments, for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sergio Cabello , Panos Giannopoulos

We use proof mining techniques to obtain a uniform rate of asymptotic regularity for the instance of the parallel algorithm used by L\'opez-Acedo and Xu to find common fixed points of finite families of $k$-strict pseudocontractive…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Andrei Sipos

We give an $O(\log^2 n)$-query algorithm for finding a Tarski fixed point over the $4$-dimensional lattice $[n]^4$, matching the $\Omega(\log^2 n)$ lower bound of [EPRY20]. Additionally, our algorithm yields an ${O(\log^{\lceil…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xi Chen , Yuhao Li , Mihalis Yannakakis

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable (\FPT) $\rho$-approximation algorithm for a minimization (resp. maximization) parameterized problem $P$ is an FPT algorithm that, given an instance $(x, k)\in P$ computes a solution of cost at most $k \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz

In this paper we establish some common fixed point theorem for a new class of pair of contractions mappings, called $\psi-(\alpha,\beta, m)$-contraction pairs, which we will assume occasionally weakly compatible and satisfying the property…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-17 J. R. Morales , E. M. Rojas

The best uniform polynomial approximation of the checkmark function $f(x)=|x-\alpha |$ is considered, as $\alpha$ varies in $(-1,1)$. For each fixed degree $n$, the minimax error $E_n (\alpha)$ is shown to be piecewise analytic in $\alpha$.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Peter D. Dragnev , Alan R. Legg , Ramon Orive

The \textsc{Bipartite Contraction} problem is to decide, given a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, whether we can can obtain a bipartite graph from $G$ by at most $k$ edge contractions. The fixed-parameter tractability of the problem was shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Sylvain Guillemot , Dániel Marx

We study the query complexity of min-max optimization of a nonconvex-nonconcave function $f$ over $[0,1]^d \times [0,1]^d$. We show that, given oracle access to $f$ and to its gradient $\nabla f$, any algorithm that finds an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Alexandros Hollender

Let $P$ and $Q$ be two simple polygons in the plane of total complexity $n$, each of which can be decomposed into at most $k$ convex parts. We present an $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm, for finding the translation of $Q$, which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Sariel Har-Peled , Subhro Roy

A well-known combinatorial algorithm can decide generic rigidity in the plane by determining if the graph is of Pollaczek-Geiringer-Laman type. Methods from matroid theory have been used to prove other interesting results, again under the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Andrew Frohmader , Alexander Heaton

Following recent advances in combining approximation algorithms with fixed-parameter tractability (FPT), we study FPT-time approximation algorithms for minimum-norm $k$-clustering problems, parameterized by the number $k$ of open…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Han Dai , Shi Li , Sijin Peng

The main purpose of this paper is to find the fixed point in such cases where existing literature remain silent. In this paper we introduce partial completeness, a new type of contraction and many other definitions. Using this approach the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Tawseef Rashid , Qamrul Haque Khan

In this paper, we provide an $O(n \mathrm{polylog} n)$ bound on the expected complexity of the randomly weighted Voronoi diagram of a set of $n$ sites in the plane, where the sites can be either points, interior-disjoint convex sets, or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

We introduce and study a new type of mappings in metric spaces termed $n$-point Kannan-type mappings. A fixed-point theorem is proved for these mappings. In general case such mappings are discontinuous in the domain but necessarily…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Ravindra K. Bisht , Evgeniy Petrov

A graph operation that {\em contracts edges} is one of the fundamental operations in the theory of graph minors. Parameterized Complexity of editing to a family of graphs by contracting $k$ edges has recently gained substantial scientific…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Spoorthy Gunda , Pallavi Jain , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

In this paper, as a geometric approach to the fixed-point theory, we prove new fixed-figure results using the notion of $k$-ellipse on a metric space. For this purpose, we are inspired by the Caristi type contraction, Kannan type…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Nihal Taş , Hülya Aytimur , Şaban Güvenç

We present a simple new algorithm for finding a Tarski fixed point of a monotone function $F : [N]^3 \rightarrow [N]^3$. Our algorithm runs in $O(\log^2 N)$ time and makes $O(\log^2 N)$ queries to $F$, matching the $\Omega(\log^2 N)$ query…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Sebastian Haslebacher , Jonas Lill

We consider the well-studied Robust $(k, z)$-Clustering problem, which generalizes the classic $k$-Median, $k$-Means, and $k$-Center problems. Given a constant $z\ge 1$, the input to Robust $(k, z)$-Clustering is a set $P$ of $n$ weighted…