We show that O(n2) exchanging flips suffice to transform any edge-labelled pointed pseudo-triangulation into any other with the same set of labels. By using insertion, deletion and exchanging flips, we can transform any edge-labelled pseudo-triangulation into any other with O(nlogc+hlogh) flips, where c is the number of convex layers and h is the number of points on the convex hull.
@article{arxiv.1512.01485,
title = {Flips in Edge-Labelled Pseudo-Triangulations},
author = {Prosenjit Bose and Sander Verdonschot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01485},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
15 pages, 10 figures, invited to a CGTA special issue for CCCG 2015. The paper is a stand-alone version of results that appeared in the second author's PhD thesis (arXiv:1509.02563 [cs.CG])