No, coreset, no cry

  • Authors:
  • Sariel Har-Peled

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

  • Venue:
  • FSTTCS'04 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We show that coresets do not exist for the problem of 2-slabs in ${\mathbb R}^{3}$, thus demonstrating that the natural approach for solving approximately this problem efficiently is infeasible. On the positive side, for a point set P in ${\mathbb R}^{3}$, we describe a near linear time algorithm for computing a (1+ε)-approximation to the minimum width 2-slab cover of P. This is a first step in providing an efficient approximation algorithm for the problem of covering a point set with k-slabs.