Three-Dimensional Layers of Maxima

  • Authors:
  • Adam L. Buchsbaum;Michael T. Goodrich

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ESA '02 Proceedings of the 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present an O(n log n)-time algorithm to solve the three-dimensional layers-of-maxima problem, an improvement over the prior O(n log n log log n)-time solution. A previous claimed O(n log n)-time solution due to Atallah, Goodrich, and Ramaiyer [SCG'94] has technical flaws. Our algorithm is based on a common framework underlying previous work, but to implement it we devise a new data structure to solve a special case of dynamic planar point location in a staircase subdivision. Our data structure itself relies on a new extension to dynamic fractional cascading that allows vertices of high degree in the control graph.