The Partition Technique for Overlays of Envelopes
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چکیده
We obtain a near-tight bound of O(n), for any ε > 0, on the complexity of the overlay of the minimization diagrams of two collections of surfaces in four dimensions. This settles a long-standing problem in the theory of arrangements, most recently cited by Agarwal and Sharir [3, Open Problem 2], and substantially improves and simplifies a result previously published by the authors [17]. Our bound is obtained by introducing a new approach to the analysis of combinatorial structures arising in geometric arrangements of surfaces. This approach, which we call the ‘partition technique’, is based on k-fold divide and conquer, in which a given collection F of n surfaces is partitioned into k subcollections Fi of n/k surfaces each, and the complexity of the relevant combinatorial structure in F is recursively related to the complexities of the corresponding structures in each of the Fi’s. We introduce this approach by applying it first to obtain a new simple proof for the known near-quadratic bound on the complexity of an overlay of two minimization diagrams of collections of surfaces in R, thereby simplifying the previously available proof [2]. The main new bound on overlays has numerous algorithmic and combinatorial applications, some of which are presented in this paper.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM J. Comput.
دوره 32 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002