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This paper presents a fast and simple new 2-approximation algorithm for minimum weighted vertex cover. The unweighted version of this algorithm is equivalent to a well-known greedy maximal independent set algorithm. We prove that this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Nate Veldt

We study noncrossing geometric graphs and their disjoint compatible geometric matchings. Given a cycle (a polygon) P we want to draw a set of pairwise disjoint straight-line edges with endpoints on the vertices of P such that these new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Alexander Pilz , Jonathan Rollin , Lena Schlipf , André Schulz

We study a variant of the geometric multicut problem, where we are given a set $\mathcal{P}$ of colored and pairwise interior-disjoint polygons in the plane. The objective is to compute a set of simple closed polygon boundaries (fences)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sujoy Bhore , Fabian Klute , Maarten Löffler , Martin Nöllenburg , Soeren Terziadis , Anaïs Villedieu

Evolution of large scale networks demand for efficient way of communication in the networks. One way to propagate information in the network is to find vertex cover. In this paper we describe a variant of vertex cover problem naming it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Tarun Yadav , Koustav Sadhukhan , Rao Arvind Mallari

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on $n$ vertices for each $n\in\{16,\ldots,30\}$. When $n\leq 21$, our bounds match the best known lower bounds, and we fully enumerate the densest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Boris Alexeev , Dustin G. Mixon , Hans Parshall

Our main result is designing an algorithm that returns a vertex cover of $\mathcal{G}^\star$ with size at most $(3/2+\epsilon)$ times the expected size of the minimum vertex cover, using only $O(n/\epsilon p)$ non-adaptive queries. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Mahsa Derakhshan , Naveen Durvasula , Nika Haghtalab

Given a polygon $H$ in the plane, the art gallery problem calls for fining the smallest set of points in $H$ from which every other point in $H$ is seen. We give a deterministic algorithm that, given any polygon $H$ with $h$ holes, $n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Khaled Elbassioni

We introduce the \emph{visibility center} of a set of points inside a polygon -- a point $c_V$ such that the maximum geodesic distance from $c_V$ to see any point in the set is minimized. For a simple polygon of $n$ vertices and a set of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Anna Lubiw , Anurag Murty Naredla

For the given regular plane polygon and an arbitrary point in the plane of the polygon, the distances from the point to the vertices of the polygon are defined. We proved that there is one more non-congruent regular polygon having the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Mamuka Meskhishvili

We show that the minimum distance projection in the L1-norm from an interior point onto the boundary of a convex set is achieved by a single, unidimensional projection. Application of this characterization when the convex set is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hans J. H. Tuenter

Given a set P of points in the plane, an Euclidean t-spanner for P is a geometric graph that preserves the Euclidean distances between every pair of points in P up to a constant factor t. The weight of a geometric graph refers to the total…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Paz Carmi , Lilach Chaitman-Yerushalmi

The reachability problem asks to decide if there exists a path from one vertex to another in a digraph. In a grid digraph, the vertices are the points of a two-dimensional square grid, and an edge can occur between a vertex and its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected graph. The distance between two vertices $u,v\in V$, denoted by $d(u, v)$, is the length of a shortest $u-v$ path in $G$. The distance between a vertex $v\in V$ and a subset $P\subset V$ is defined as $min\{d(v,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Ismael G. Yero , Juan A. Rodriquez-Velazquez

The problem of searching a polygonal region for an unpredictably moving intruder by a set of stationary guards, each carrying an orientable laser, is known as the Searchlight Scheduling Problem. Determining the computational complexity of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Giovanni Viglietta

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular similarity measure that is well-understood for polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$: near-quadratic time algorithms exist, and conditional lower bounds suggest that these results cannot be improved…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

An ortho-polygon visibility representation of an $n$-vertex embedded graph $G$ (OPVR of $G$) is an embedding-preserving drawing of $G$ that maps every vertex to a distinct orthogonal polygon and each edge to a vertical or horizontal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Emilio Di Giacomo , Walter Didimo , William S. Evans , Giuseppe Liotta , Henk Meijer , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Stephen K. Wismath

The distances between flats of a Poisson $k$-flat process in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space with $k<d/2$ are discussed. Continuing an approach originally due to Rolf Schneider, the number of pairs of flats having distance less than a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Matthias Schulte , Christoph Thaele

Unit disk graphs are intersection graphs of circles of unit radius in the plane. We present simple and provably good heuristics for a number of classical NP-hard optimization problems on unit disk graphs. The problems considered include…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Madhav V. Marathe , H. Breu , Harry B. Hunt , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz

Let $k$ be an integer. We prove a rough structure theorem for separations of order at most $k$ in finite and infinite vertex transitive graphs. Let $G = (V,E)$ be a vertex transitive graph, let $A \subseteq V$ be a finite vertex-set with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-24 Matt DeVos , Bojan Mohar

We study the minimum \emph{Monitoring Edge Geodetic Set} (\megset) problem introduced in [Foucaud et al., CALDAM'23]: given a graph $G$, we say that an edge is monitored by a pair $u,v$ of vertices if \emph{all} shortest paths between $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Davide Bilò , Giordano Colli , Luca Forlizzi , Stefano Leucci