Stable Roommates Spanner

  • Authors:
  • Prosenjit Bose;Paz Carmi;Lilach Chaitman-Yerushalmi;SéBastien Collette;Matthew J. Katz;Stefan Langerman

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Département dInformatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Département dInformatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We introduce a new geometric spanner whose construction is based on a generalization of the known Stable Roommates problem. The Stable Roommates Spanner combines the most desirable properties of geometric spanners: a natural definition, small degree, linear number of edges, strong (1+@e)-spanner for every @e0, and an efficient construction algorithm. It is an improvement over the well-known Yao graph and @Q-graph and their variants. We show how to construct such a spanner for a set of points in the plane in O(nlog^1^0n) expected time. We introduce a variant of the Stable Roommates Spanner called the Stable Roommates @Q-Spanner which we can generalize to higher dimensions and construct more efficiently in O(nlog^dn) time. This variant possesses all the properties of the Stable Roommates Spanner except that it is no longer a strong spanner.