Epsilon-nets and simplex range queries

  • Authors:
  • D Haussler;E Welzl

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado;Institutes for Information Processing, Technical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • SCG '86 Proceedings of the second annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

We present a new technique for half-space and simplex range query using &Ogr;(n) space and &Ogr;(na) query time, where a d(d-1)/d(d-1) + 1 + &ggr; for all dimensions d ≥ 2 and &ggr; 0. These bounds are better than those previously published for all d ≥ 2. The technique uses random sampling to build a partition-tree structure. We introduce the concept of an &egr;-net for an abstract set of ranges to describe the desired result of this random sampling and give necessary and sufficient conditions that a random sample is an &egr;-net with high probability. We illustrate the application of these ideas to other range query problems.