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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2489
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24898
URL: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2010/2489/
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### Relaxed Spanners for Directed Disk Graphs

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### Abstract

Let $(V,\delta)$ be a finite metric space, where $V$ is a set of $n$ points and $\delta$ is a distance function defined for these points. Assume that $(V,\delta)$ has a constant doubling dimension $d$ and assume that each point $p\in V$ has a disk of radius $r(p)$ around it. The disk graph that corresponds to $V$ and $r(\cdot)$ is a \emph{directed} graph $I(V,E,r)$, whose vertices are the points of $V$ and whose edge set includes a directed edge from $p$ to $q$ if $\delta(p,q)\leq r(p)$. In~\cite{PeRo08} we presented an algorithm for constructing a $(1+\eps)$-spanner of size $O(n/\eps^d \log M)$, where $M$ is the maximal radius $r(p)$. The current paper presents two results. The first shows that the spanner of~\cite{PeRo08} is essentially optimal, i.e., for metrics of constant doubling dimension it is not possible to guarantee a spanner whose size is independent of $M$. The second result shows that by slightly relaxing the requirements and allowing a small perturbation of the radius assignment, considerably better spanners can be constructed. In particular, we show that if it is allowed to use edges of the disk graph $I(V,E,r_{1+\eps})$, where $r_{1+\eps}(p) = (1+\eps)\cdot r(p)$ for every $p\in V$, then it is possible to get a $(1+\eps)$-spanner of size $O(n/\eps^d)$ for $I(V,E,r)$. Our algorithm is simple and can be implemented efficiently.

### BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{peleg_et_al:LIPIcs:2010:2489,
author =	{David Peleg and Liam Roditty},
title =	{{Relaxed Spanners for Directed Disk Graphs}},
booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science},
pages =	{609--620},
series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN =	{978-3-939897-16-3},
ISSN =	{1868-8969},
year =	{2010},
volume =	{5},
editor =	{Jean-Yves Marion and Thomas Schwentick},
publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2010/2489},
URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24898},
doi =		{http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2489},
annote =	{Keywords: Spanners, directed graphs}
}


 Keywords: Spanners, directed graphs Seminar: 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science Issue Date: 2010 Date of publication: 09.03.2010

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