All-maximum and all-minimum problems under some measures

  • Authors:
  • Asish Mukhopadhyay;Satish Ch. Panigrahi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the following type of proximity problems: given a set of n points in the plane P={p"1,p"2,p"3,...,p"n}, for each point p"i find a pair {p"j,p"k}, where ijk, such that a measure M defined on the triplet of points {p"i,p"j,p"k} is maximized or minimized. The cases where M is the distance from p"i to the segment or line defined by {p"j,p"k} have been extensively studied. We study the cases where M is the sum, product or the difference of the distances from p"i to the points p"j and p"k; distance from p"i to the line defined by p"j and p"k; the area, perimeter of the triangle defined by p"i, p"j and p"k, as well as the radius of the circumcircle defined by them. We also discuss the all-farthest triangle problem in the triangle-distance measure when P is a set of points in 3 dimensions.