On the Stretch Factor of Convex Delaunay Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Prosenjit Bose;Paz Carmi;Sébastien Collette;Michiel Smid

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6;School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6;Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 1050;School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC '08 Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Let C be a compact and convex set in the plane that contains the origin in its interior, and let S be a finite set of points in the plane. The Delaunay graph $\mathord{\it DG}_C(S)$ of S is defined to be the dual of the Voronoi diagram of S with respect to the convex distance function defined by C. We prove that $\mathord{\it DG}_C(S)$ is a t-spanner for S, for some constant t that depends only on the shape of the set C. Thus, for any two points p and q in S, the graph $\mathord{\it DG}_C(S)$ contains a path between p and q whose Euclidean length is at most t times the Euclidean distance between p and q.