Improved bound for the union of fat triangles

  • Authors:
  • Esther Ezra;Boris Aronov;Micha Sharir

  • Affiliations:
  • New York University, New York, NY;Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY;Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-second annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We show that, for any fixed δ 0, the combinatorial complexity of the union of n triangles in the plane, each of whose angles is at least δ, is O(n2α(n) log* n), with the constant of proportionality depending on δ. This considerably improves the twenty-year-old bound O(n log log n), due to Matoušek et al. [24, 25].