Equitable subdivisions within polygonal regions

  • Authors:
  • Sergey Bereg;Prosenjit Bose;David Kirkpatrick

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications - Special issue on the Japan conference on discrete and computational geometry 2004
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We prove a generalization of the Ham-Sandwich Theorem. Specifically, let P be a simple polygonal region containing |R| = kn red points and |B| = km blue points in its interior with k ≥ 2. We show that P can be partitioned into k relatively-convex regions each of which contains exactly n red and m blue points. A region of P is relatively-convex if it is closed under geodesic (shortest) paths in P. We outline an O(kN2 log2 N) time algorithm for computing such a k-partition, where N = |R| + |B| + |P|.