Decompositions, partitions, and coverings with convex polygons and pseudo-triangles

  • Authors:
  • O. Aichholzer;C. Huemer;S. Kappes;B. Speckmann;C. D. Tóth

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Technology;Departament de Matemática Aplicada II, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya;Department of Mathematics, TU Berlin;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven;Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'06 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a novel subdivision of the plane that consists of both convex polygons and pseudo-triangles. This pseudo-convex decomposition is significantly sparser than either convex decompositions or pseudo-triangulations for planar point sets and simple polygons. We also introduce pseudo-convex partitions and coverings. We establish some basic properties and give combinatorial bounds on their complexity. Our upper bounds depend on new Ramsey-type results concerning disjoint empty convex k-gons in point sets.