Euclidean minimum spanning trees and bichromatic closest pairs

  • Authors:
  • Pankaj K. Agarwal;Herbert Edelsbrunner;Otfried Schwarzkopf;Emo Welzl

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SCG '90 Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We present an algorithm to compute a Euclidean minimum spanning tree of a given set S of n points in @@@@d in time &Ogr;(&Tgr;d(N, N) logd N), where &Tgr;d(n, m) is the time required to compute a bichromatic closest pair among n red and m blue points in @@@@d. If &Tgr;d(N, N) = &OHgr;(N1+&egr;), for some fixed &egr; 0, then the running time improves to &Ogr;(&Tgr;d(N, N)). Furthermore, we describe a randomized algorithm to compute a bichromatic closest pair in expected time &Ogr;((nm log n log m)2/3 + m log2 n + n log2 m) in @@@@3, which yields an &Ogr;(N4/3 log4/3 N) expected time algorithm for computing a Euclidean minimum spanning tree of N points in @@@@3.