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Light Euclidean Spanners with Steiner Points

Authors Hung Le, Shay Solomon

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
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  • Euclidean spanners
  • Steiner spanners
  • light spanners

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Abstract

The FOCS'19 paper of Le and Solomon [Hung Le and Shay Solomon, 2019], culminating a long line of research on Euclidean spanners, proves that the lightness (normalized weight) of the greedy (1+ε)-spanner in ℝ^d is Õ(ε^{-d}) for any d = O(1) and any ε = Ω(n^{-1/(d-1)}) (where Õ hides polylogarithmic factors of 1/ε), and also shows the existence of point sets in ℝ^d for which any (1+ε)-spanner must have lightness Ω(ε^{-d}). Given this tight bound on the lightness, a natural arising question is whether a better lightness bound can be achieved using Steiner points.
Our first result is a construction of Steiner spanners in ℝ² with lightness O(ε^{-1} log Δ), where Δ is the spread of the point set. In the regime of Δ ≪ 2^(1/ε), this provides an improvement over the lightness bound of [Hung Le and Shay Solomon, 2019]; this regime of parameters is of practical interest, as point sets arising in real-life applications (e.g., for various random distributions) have polynomially bounded spread, while in spanner applications ε often controls the precision, and it sometimes needs to be much smaller than O(1/log n). Moreover, for spread polynomially bounded in 1/ε, this upper bound provides a quadratic improvement over the non-Steiner bound of [Hung Le and Shay Solomon, 2019], We then demonstrate that such a light spanner can be constructed in O_ε(n) time for polynomially bounded spread, where O_ε hides a factor of poly(1/(ε)). Finally, we extend the construction to higher dimensions, proving a lightness upper bound of Õ(ε^{-(d+1)/2} + ε^{-2} log Δ) for any 3 ≤ d = O(1) and any ε = Ω(n^{-1/(d-1)}).

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Hung Le and Shay Solomon. Light Euclidean Spanners with Steiner Points. In 28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 173, pp. 67:1-67:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.67

Author Details

Hung Le
  • University of Victoria, Canada
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Shay Solomon
  • Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Funding

  • Le, Hung: Supported by a PIMS postdoctoral fellowship and an NSERC grant.
  • Solomon, Shay: Partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant No.1991/19 and by Len Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family foundation.

Acknowledgements

Shay Solomon is grateful to Michael Elkin, Ofer Neiman and Michiel Smid for fruitful discussions.

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