On the Fermat-Weber center of a convex object

نویسندگان

  • Paz Carmi
  • Sariel Har-Peled
  • Matthew J. Katz
چکیده

We show that for any convex object Q in the plane, the average distance from the Fermat-Weber center of Q to the points in Q is at least ∆(P )/7, where ∆(P ) is the diameter of P , and that there exists a convex object for which this distance is ∆(P )/6. We use this result to obtain a linear-time approximation scheme for finding an approximate Fermat-Weber center of a convex polygon Q.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Comput. Geom.

دوره 32  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005