On point covers of c-oriented polygons

  • Authors:
  • Frank Nielsen

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Let S be any family of n c-oriented polygons of the two-dimensional Euclidean plane E2, i.e., bounded intersection of halfplanes whose normal directions of edges belong to a fixed collection of c distinct directions. Let (S) denote the packing number of S, that is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint objects of S. Let (S) be the transversal number of S, that is the minimum number of points required so that each object contains at least one of those points. We provide linear-time algorithms t(n, c) = &Thgr;(nc) for &agr;-fat c-oriented polytopes, translates or homothets of Ed proving that G(2, c) = O(&agr;)d, G(2, c)≤dd and G(2, c)≤(3d3/2)d respectively