A general approach to d-dimensional geometric queries

  • Authors:
  • A C Yao;F F Yao

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '85 Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

It is shown that any bounded region in Ed can be divided into 2d subregions of equal volume in such a way that no hyperplane in Ed can intersect all 2d of the subregions. This theorem provides the basis of a data structure scheme for organizing n points in d dimensions. Under this scheme, a broad class of geometric queries in d dimensions, including many common problems in range search and optimization, can be solved in linear storage space and sublinear time.