Covering a bichromatic point set with two disjoint monochromatic disks

  • Authors:
  • S. Cabello;J. M. DíAz-BáñEz;P. PéRez-Lantero

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, FMF, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia;Departamento Matemática Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain;Escuela de Ingeniería Civil Informática, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

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

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Abstract

Let P be a set of n points in the plane in general position such that its elements are colored red or blue. We study the problem of finding two disjoint disks D"r and D"b such that D"r covers only red points, D"b covers only blue points, and the number of elements of P contained in D"r@?D"b is maximized. We prove that this problem can be solved in O(n^1^1^/^3polylogn) time. We also present a randomized algorithm that with high probability returns a (1-@e)-approximation to the optimal solution in O(n^4^/^3@e^-^6polylogn) time.