On Center Regions and Balls Containing Many Points

  • Authors:
  • Shakhar Smorodinsky;Marek Sulovský;Uli Wagner

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel 84105;Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 8092;Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 8092

  • Venue:
  • COCOON '08 Proceedings of the 14th annual international conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study the disk containment problem introduced by Neumann-Lara and Urrutia and its generalization to higher dimensions. We relate the problem to centerpoints and lower centerpoints of point sets. Moreover, we show that for any set of npoints in , there is a subset A茂戮驴 Sof size $\lfloor \frac{d+3}{2}\rfloor$ such that any ball containing Acontains at least roughly $\frac{4}{5ed^3}n$ points of S. This improves previous bounds for which the constant was exponentially small in d. We also consider a generalization of the planar disk containment problem to families of pseudodisks.