Extending the centerpoint theorem to multiple points
Abstract
The centerpoint theorem is a well-known and widely used result in discrete geometry. It states that for any point set of points in , there is a point , not necessarily from , such that each halfspace containing contains at least points of . Such a point is called a centerpoint, and it can be viewed as a generalization of a median to higher dimensions. In other words, a centerpoint can be interpreted as a good representative for the point set . But what if we allow more than one representative? For example in one-dimensional data sets, often certain quantiles are chosen as representatives instead of the median. We present a possible extension of the concept of quantiles to higher dimensions. The idea is to find a set of (few) points such that every halfspace that contains one point of contains a large fraction of the points of and every halfspace that contains more of contains an even larger fraction of . This setting is comparable to the well-studied concepts of weak -nets and weak -approximations, where it is stronger than the former but weaker than the latter.
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@article{arxiv.1810.10231,
title = {Extending the centerpoint theorem to multiple points},
author = {Alexander Pilz and Patrick Schnider},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10231},
year = {2018}
}
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Presented at the 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)