Weighted ham-sandwich cuts

  • Authors:
  • Prosenjit Bose;Stefan Langerman

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada;Département d’Informatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • JCDCG'04 Proceedings of the 2004 Japanese conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Let R and B be two sets of n points. A ham-sandwich cut is a line that simultaneously bisects R and B, and is known to always exist. This notion can be generalized to the case where each point p ∈ R ∪ B is associated with a weight wp. A ham-sandwich cut can still be proved to exist, even if weights are allowed to be negative. In this paper, we present a O(n log n) algorithm to find a weighted ham-sandwich cut, but we show that deciding whether that cut is unique is 3-SUM hard.