Cuttings for disks and axis-aligned rectangles

  • Authors:
  • Eynat Rafalin;Diane L. Souvaine;Csaba D. Tóth

  • Affiliations:
  • Google Inc., Mountain View, CA;Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, MA;Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • WADS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present new asymptotically tight bounds on cuttings, a fundamental data structure in computational geometry. For n objects in space and a parameter r ∈ N, an 1/r -cutting is a covering of the space with simplices such that the interior of each simplex intersects at most n/r objects. For n pairwise disjoint disks in R3 and a parameter r ∈ N, we construct a 1/r -cutting of size O(r2). For n axis-aligned rectangles in R3, we construct a 1/r -cutting of size O(r3/2). As an application related to multi-point location in three-space, we present tight bounds on the cost of spanning trees across barriers. Given n points and a finite set of disjoint disk barriers in R3, the points can be connected with a straight line spanning tree such that every disk cuts at most O(√n) edges of the tree. If the barriers are axis-aligned rectangles, then there is a straight line spanning tree such that every rectangle cuts O(n1/3) edges. Both bounds are the best possible.