Efficient Algorithms for Two-Center Problems for a Convex Polygon

  • Authors:
  • Sung Kwon Kim;Chan-Su Shin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • COCOON '00 Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Let P be a convex polygon with n vertices. We want to find two congruent disks whose union covers P and whose radius is minimized. We also consider its discrete version with centers restricted to be at vertices of P. Standard and discrete two-center problems are respectively solved in O(n log3 n log log n) and O(n log2 n) time. Furthermore, we can solve both of the standard and discrete two-center problems for a set of points in convex positions in O(n log2 n) time.