Coordinate representation of order types requires exponential storage

  • Authors:
  • J. E. Goodman;R. Pollack;B. Sturmfels

  • Affiliations:
  • City College, CUNY, New York, NY;Courant Institute, NYU, New York, NY;Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes-Kepler Universität, A-4040 Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • STOC '89 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We give doubly exponential upper and lower bounds on the size of the smallest grid on which we can embed every planar configuration of n points in general position up to order type. The lower bound is achieved by the construction of a widely dispersed “rigid” configuration which is then modified to one in general position by recent techniques of Sturmfels and White, while the upper bound uses recent results of Grigor'ev and Vorobjou on the solution of simultaneous inequalities. This provides a sharp answer to a question first posed by Chazelle.