Partitioning Colored Point Sets into Monochromatic Parts

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Dumitrescu;János Pach

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WADS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

It is shown that any two-colored set of n points in general position in the plane can be partitioned into at most ⌈n+1/2⌉ monochromatic subsets, whose convex hulls are pairwise disjoint. This bound cannot be improved in general. We present an O(n log n) time algorithm for constructing a partition into fewer parts, if the coloring is unbalanced, i.e., the sizes of the two color classes differ by more than one. The analogous question for k-colored point sets (k 2) and its higher dimensional variant are also considered.