Alternating paths through disjoint line segments

  • Authors:
  • Michael Hoffmann;Csaba D. Tóth

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, CH-8092, Switzerland;Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We show that every segment endpoint visibility graph on n disjoint line segments in the plane admits an alternating path of length Ω(log n), and this bound is optimal apart from a constant factor.