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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.8
Eight-Partitioning Points in 3D, and Efficiently Too

Authors: Boris Aronov, Abdul Basit, Indu Ramesh, Gianluca Tasinato, and Uli Wagner

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)

Abstract
An eight-partition of a finite set of points (respectively, of a continuous mass distribution) in ℝ³ consists of three planes that divide the space into 8 octants, such that each open octant contains at most 1/8 of the points (respectively, of the mass). In 1966, Hadwiger showed that any mass distribution in ℝ³ admits an eight-partition; moreover, one can prescribe the normal direction of one of the three planes. The analogous result for finite point sets follows by a standard limit argument. We prove the following variant of this result: Any mass distribution (or point set) in ℝ³ admits an eight-partition for which the intersection of two of the planes is a line with a prescribed direction. Moreover, we present an efficient algorithm for calculating an eight-partition of a set of n points in ℝ³ (with prescribed normal direction of one of the planes) in time O^*(n^{5/2}).
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Boris Aronov, Abdul Basit, Indu Ramesh, Gianluca Tasinato, and Uli Wagner. Eight-Partitioning Points in 3D, and Efficiently Too. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 8:1-8:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.8,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Basit, Abdul and Ramesh, Indu and Tasinato, Gianluca and Wagner, Uli},
  title =	{{Eight-Partitioning Points in 3D, and Efficiently Too}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-199538},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Mass partitions, partitions of points in three dimensions, Borsuk-Ulam Theorem, Ham-Sandwich Theorem}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.9
A Clique-Based Separator for Intersection Graphs of Geodesic Disks in ℝ²

Authors: Boris Aronov, Mark de Berg, and Leonidas Theocharous

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)

Abstract
Let d be a (well-behaved) shortest-path metric defined on a path-connected subset of ℝ² and let 𝒟 = {D_1,…,D_n} be a set of geodesic disks with respect to the metric d. We prove that 𝒢^×(𝒟), the intersection graph of the disks in 𝒟, has a clique-based separator consisting of O(n^{3/4+ε}) cliques. This significantly extends the class of objects whose intersection graphs have small clique-based separators. Our clique-based separator yields an algorithm for q-Coloring that runs in time 2^O(n^{3/4+ε}), assuming the boundaries of the disks D_i can be computed in polynomial time. We also use our clique-based separator to obtain a simple, efficient, and almost exact distance oracle for intersection graphs of geodesic disks. Our distance oracle uses O(n^{7/4+ε}) storage and can report the hop distance between any two nodes in 𝒢^×(𝒟) in O(n^{3/4+ε}) time, up to an additive error of one. So far, distance oracles with an additive error of one that use subquadratic storage and sublinear query time were not known for such general graph classes.
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Boris Aronov, Mark de Berg, and Leonidas Theocharous. A Clique-Based Separator for Intersection Graphs of Geodesic Disks in ℝ². In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 9:1-9:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.9,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and de Berg, Mark and Theocharous, Leonidas},
  title =	{{A Clique-Based Separator for Intersection Graphs of Geodesic Disks in \mathbb{R}²}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-199540},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational geometry, intersection graphs, separator theorems}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.10
Discrete Fréchet Distance Oracles

Authors: Boris Aronov, Tsuri Farhana, Matthew J. Katz, and Indu Ramesh

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)

Abstract
It is unlikely that the discrete Fréchet distance between two curves of length n can be computed in strictly subquadratic time. We thus consider the setting where one of the curves, P, is known in advance. In particular, we wish to construct data structures (distance oracles) of near-linear size that support efficient distance queries with respect to P in sublinear time. Since there is evidence that this is impossible for query curves of length Θ(n^α), for any α > 0, we focus on query curves of (small) constant length, for which we are able to devise distance oracles with the desired bounds. We extend our tools to handle subcurves of the given curve, and even arbitrary vertex-to-vertex subcurves of a given geometric tree. That is, we construct an oracle that can quickly compute the distance between a short polygonal path (the query) and a path in the preprocessed tree between two query-specified vertices. Moreover, we define a new family of geometric graphs, t-local graphs (which strictly contains the family of geometric spanners with constant stretch), for which a similar oracle exists: we can preprocess a graph G in the family, so that, given a query segment and a pair u,v of vertices in G, one can quickly compute the smallest discrete Fréchet distance between the segment and any (u,v)-path in G. The answer is exact, if t = 1, and approximate if t > 1.
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Boris Aronov, Tsuri Farhana, Matthew J. Katz, and Indu Ramesh. Discrete Fréchet Distance Oracles. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 10:1-10:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.10,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Farhana, Tsuri and Katz, Matthew J. and Ramesh, Indu},
  title =	{{Discrete Fr\'{e}chet Distance Oracles}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-199554},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: discrete Fr\'{e}chet distance, distance oracle, heavy-path decomposition, t-local graphs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2022.11
Dynamic Approximate Multiplicatively-Weighted Nearest Neighbors

Authors: Boris Aronov and Matthew J. Katz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 227, 18th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2022)

Abstract
We describe a dynamic data structure for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) queries with respect to multiplicatively weighted distances with additive offsets. Queries take polylogarithmic time, while the cost of updates is amortized polylogarithmic. The data structure requires near-linear space and construction time. The approach works not only for the Euclidean norm, but for other norms in ℝ^d, for any fixed d. We employ our ANN data structure to construct a faster dynamic structure for approximate SINR queries, ensuring polylogarithmic query and polylogarithmic amortized update for the case of non-uniform power transmitters, thus closing a gap in previous state of the art. To obtain the latter result, we needed a data structure for dynamic approximate halfplane range counting in the plane. Since we could not find such a data structure in the literature, we also show how to dynamize one of the known static data structures.
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Boris Aronov and Matthew J. Katz. Dynamic Approximate Multiplicatively-Weighted Nearest Neighbors. In 18th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 227, pp. 11:1-11:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2022.11,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J.},
  title =	{{Dynamic Approximate Multiplicatively-Weighted Nearest Neighbors}},
  booktitle =	{18th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2022)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-236-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{227},
  editor =	{Czumaj, Artur and Xin, Qin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2022.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161710},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2022.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Nearest neighbors, Approximate nearest neighbors, Weighted nearest neighbors, Nearest neighbor queries, SINR queries, Dynamic data structures}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.4
Intersection Queries for Flat Semi-Algebraic Objects in Three Dimensions and Related Problems

Authors: Pankaj K. Agarwal, Boris Aronov, Esther Ezra, Matthew J. Katz, and Micha Sharir

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 224, 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)

Abstract
Let 𝒯 be a set of n planar semi-algebraic regions in ℝ³ of constant complexity (e.g., triangles, disks), which we call plates. We wish to preprocess 𝒯 into a data structure so that for a query object γ, which is also a plate, we can quickly answer various intersection queries, such as detecting whether γ intersects any plate of 𝒯, reporting all the plates intersected by γ, or counting them. We focus on two simpler cases of this general setting: (i) the input objects are plates and the query objects are constant-degree algebraic arcs in ℝ³ (arcs, for short), or (ii) the input objects are arcs and the query objects are plates in ℝ³. These interesting special cases form the building blocks for the general case. By combining the polynomial-partitioning technique with additional tools from real algebraic geometry, we obtain a variety of results with different storage and query-time bounds, depending on the complexity of the input and query objects. For example, if 𝒯 is a set of plates and the query objects are arcs, we obtain a data structure that uses O^*(n^{4/3}) storage (where the O^*(⋅) notation hides subpolynomial factors) and answers an intersection query in O^*(n^{2/3}) time. Alternatively, by increasing the storage to O^*(n^{3/2}), the query time can be decreased to O^*(n^{ρ}), where ρ = (2t-3)/3(t-1) < 2/3 and t ≥ 3 is the number of parameters needed to represent the query arcs.
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Pankaj K. Agarwal, Boris Aronov, Esther Ezra, Matthew J. Katz, and Micha Sharir. Intersection Queries for Flat Semi-Algebraic Objects in Three Dimensions and Related Problems. In 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 224, pp. 4:1-4:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{agarwal_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.4,
  author =	{Agarwal, Pankaj K. and Aronov, Boris and Ezra, Esther and Katz, Matthew J. and Sharir, Micha},
  title =	{{Intersection Queries for Flat Semi-Algebraic Objects in Three Dimensions and Related Problems}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-227-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{224},
  editor =	{Goaoc, Xavier and Kerber, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160126},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Intersection searching, Semi-algebraic range searching, Point-enclosure queries, Ray-shooting queries, Polynomial partitions, Cylindrical algebraic decomposition, Multi-level partition trees, Collision detection}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.3
Subquadratic Algorithms for Some 3Sum-Hard Geometric Problems in the Algebraic Decision Tree Model

Authors: Boris Aronov, Mark de Berg, Jean Cardinal, Esther Ezra, John Iacono, and Micha Sharir

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 212, 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)

Abstract
We present subquadratic algorithms in the algebraic decision-tree model for several 3Sum-hard geometric problems, all of which can be reduced to the following question: Given two sets A, B, each consisting of n pairwise disjoint segments in the plane, and a set C of n triangles in the plane, we want to count, for each triangle Δ ∈ C, the number of intersection points between the segments of A and those of B that lie in Δ. The problems considered in this paper have been studied by Chan (2020), who gave algorithms that solve them, in the standard real-RAM model, in O((n²/log²n) log^O(1) log n) time. We present solutions in the algebraic decision-tree model whose cost is O(n^{60/31+ε}), for any ε > 0. Our approach is based on a primal-dual range searching mechanism, which exploits the multi-level polynomial partitioning machinery recently developed by Agarwal, Aronov, Ezra, and Zahl (2020). A key step in the procedure is a variant of point location in arrangements, say of lines in the plane, which is based solely on the order type of the lines, a "handicap" that turns out to be beneficial for speeding up our algorithm.
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Boris Aronov, Mark de Berg, Jean Cardinal, Esther Ezra, John Iacono, and Micha Sharir. Subquadratic Algorithms for Some 3Sum-Hard Geometric Problems in the Algebraic Decision Tree Model. In 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 212, pp. 3:1-3:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.3,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and de Berg, Mark and Cardinal, Jean and Ezra, Esther and Iacono, John and Sharir, Micha},
  title =	{{Subquadratic Algorithms for Some 3Sum-Hard Geometric Problems in the Algebraic Decision Tree Model}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-214-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{212},
  editor =	{Ahn, Hee-Kap and Sadakane, Kunihiko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154363},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational geometry, Algebraic decision-tree model, Polynomial partitioning, Primal-dual range searching, Order types, Point location, Hierarchical partitions}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.32
Geometric Pattern Matching Reduces to k-SUM

Authors: Boris Aronov and Jean Cardinal

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 181, 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020)

Abstract
We prove that some exact geometric pattern matching problems reduce in linear time to o k-SUM when the pattern has a fixed size k. This holds in the real RAM model for searching for a similar copy of a set of k ≥ 3 points within a set of n points in the plane, and for searching for an affine image of a set of k ≥ d+2 points within a set of n points in d-space. As corollaries, we obtain improved real RAM algorithms and decision trees for the two problems. In particular, they can be solved by algebraic decision trees of near-linear height.
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Boris Aronov and Jean Cardinal. Geometric Pattern Matching Reduces to k-SUM. In 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 181, pp. 32:1-32:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.32,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Cardinal, Jean},
  title =	{{Geometric Pattern Matching Reduces to k-SUM}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:9},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-173-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{181},
  editor =	{Cao, Yixin and Cheng, Siu-Wing and Li, Minming},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-133760},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geometric pattern matching, k-SUM problem, Linear decision trees}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.9
Dynamic Time Warping-Based Proximity Problems

Authors: Boris Aronov, Matthew J. Katz, and Elad Sulami

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 170, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)

Abstract
Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a well-known similarity measure for curves, i.e., sequences of points, and especially for time series. We study several proximity problems for curves, where dynamic time warping is the underlying similarity measure. More precisely, we focus on the variants of these problems, in which, whenever we refer to the dynamic time warping distance between two curves, one of them is a line segment (i.e., a sequence of length two). These variants already reveal some of the difficulties that occur when dealing with the more general ones. Specifically, we study the following three problems: (i) distance oracle: given a curve C in ℝ^d, preprocess it to accommodate distance computations between query segments and C, (ii) segment center: given a set 𝒞 of curves in ℝ^d, find a segment s that minimizes the maximum distance between s and a curve in 𝒞, and (iii) segment nearest neighbor: given 𝒞, construct a data structure for segment nearest neighbor queries, i.e., return the curve in 𝒞 which is closest to a query segment s. We present solutions to these problems in any constant dimension d ≥ 1, using L_∞ for inter-point distances. We also consider the approximation version of the first problem, using L₁ for inter-point distances. That is, given a length-m curve C in ℝ^d, we construct a data structure of size O(m log m) that allows one to compute a 2-approximation of the distance between a query segment s and C in O(log³ m) time. Finally, we describe an interesting experimental study that we performed, which is related to the first problem above.
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Boris Aronov, Matthew J. Katz, and Elad Sulami. Dynamic Time Warping-Based Proximity Problems. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 170, pp. 9:1-9:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.9,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J. and Sulami, Elad},
  title =	{{Dynamic Time Warping-Based Proximity Problems}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-159-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{170},
  editor =	{Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-126794},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic time warping, distance oracle, clustering, nearest-neighbor search}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.7
On β-Plurality Points in Spatial Voting Games

Authors: Boris Aronov, Mark de Berg, Joachim Gudmundsson, and Michael Horton

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 164, 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)

Abstract
Let V be a set of n points in ℝ^d, called voters. A point p ∈ ℝ^d is a plurality point for V when the following holds: for every q ∈ ℝ^d the number of voters closer to p than to q is at least the number of voters closer to q than to p. Thus, in a vote where each v ∈ V votes for the nearest proposal (and voters for which the proposals are at equal distance abstain), proposal p will not lose against any alternative proposal q. For most voter sets a plurality point does not exist. We therefore introduce the concept of β-plurality points, which are defined similarly to regular plurality points except that the distance of each voter to p (but not to q) is scaled by a factor β, for some constant 0<β⩽1. We investigate the existence and computation of β-plurality points, and obtain the following results. - Define β^*_d := sup{β : any finite multiset V in ℝ^d admits a β-plurality point}. We prove that β^*₂ = √3/2, and that 1/√d ⩽ β^*_d ⩽ √3/2 for all d⩾3. - Define β(V) := sup {β : V admits a β-plurality point}. We present an algorithm that, given a voter set V in {ℝ}^d, computes an (1-ε)⋅ β(V) plurality point in time O(n²/ε^(3d-2) ⋅ log(n/ε^(d-1)) ⋅ log²(1/ε)).
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Boris Aronov, Mark de Berg, Joachim Gudmundsson, and Michael Horton. On β-Plurality Points in Spatial Voting Games. In 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 164, pp. 7:1-7:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.7,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and de Berg, Mark and Gudmundsson, Joachim and Horton, Michael},
  title =	{{On \beta-Plurality Points in Spatial Voting Games}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-143-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{164},
  editor =	{Cabello, Sergio and Chen, Danny Z.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121651},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational geometry, Spatial voting theory, Plurality point, Computational social choice}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.8
Testing Polynomials for Vanishing on Cartesian Products of Planar Point Sets

Authors: Boris Aronov, Esther Ezra, and Micha Sharir

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 164, 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)

Abstract
We present subquadratic algorithms, in the algebraic decision-tree model of computation, for detecting whether there exists a triple of points, belonging to three respective sets A, B, and C of points in the plane, that satisfy a certain polynomial equation or two equations. The best known instance of such a problem is testing for the existence of a collinear triple of points in A×B×C, a classical 3SUM-hard problem that has so far defied any attempt to obtain a subquadratic solution, whether in the (uniform) real RAM model, or in the algebraic decision-tree model. While we are still unable to solve this problem, in full generality, in subquadratic time, we obtain such a solution, in the algebraic decision-tree model, that uses only roughly O(n^(28/15)) constant-degree polynomial sign tests, for the special case where two of the sets lie on one-dimensional curves and the third is placed arbitrarily in the plane. Our technique is fairly general, and applies to any other problem where we seek a triple that satisfies a single polynomial equation, e.g., determining whether A× B× C contains a triple spanning a unit-area triangle. This result extends recent work by Barba et al. [Luis Barba et al., 2019] and by Chan [Timothy M. Chan, 2020], where all three sets A, B, and C are assumed to be one-dimensional. While there are common features in the high-level approaches, here and in [Luis Barba et al., 2019], the actual analysis in this work becomes more involved and requires new methods and techniques, involving polynomial partitions and other related tools. As a second application of our technique, we again have three n-point sets A, B, and C in the plane, and we want to determine whether there exists a triple (a,b,c) ∈ A×B×C that simultaneously satisfies two real polynomial equations. For example, this is the setup when testing for the existence of pairs of similar triangles spanned by the input points, in various contexts discussed later in the paper. We show that problems of this kind can be solved with roughly O(n^(24/13)) constant-degree polynomial sign tests. These problems can be extended to higher dimensions in various ways, and we present subquadratic solutions to some of these extensions, in the algebraic decision-tree model.
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Boris Aronov, Esther Ezra, and Micha Sharir. Testing Polynomials for Vanishing on Cartesian Products of Planar Point Sets. In 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 164, pp. 8:1-8:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.8,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Ezra, Esther and Sharir, Micha},
  title =	{{Testing Polynomials for Vanishing on Cartesian Products of Planar Point Sets}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-143-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{164},
  editor =	{Cabello, Sergio and Chen, Danny Z.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121666},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algebraic decision tree, Polynomial partition, Collinearity testing, 3SUM-hard problems, Polynomials vanishing on Cartesian products}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.5
An Efficient Algorithm for Generalized Polynomial Partitioning and Its Applications

Authors: Pankaj K. Agarwal, Boris Aronov, Esther Ezra, and Joshua Zahl

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 129, 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)

Abstract
In 2015, Guth proved that if S is a collection of n g-dimensional semi-algebraic sets in R^d and if D >= 1 is an integer, then there is a d-variate polynomial P of degree at most D so that each connected component of R^d \ Z(P) intersects O(n/D^{d-g}) sets from S. Such a polynomial is called a generalized partitioning polynomial. We present a randomized algorithm that computes such polynomials efficiently - the expected running time of our algorithm is linear in |S|. Our approach exploits the technique of quantifier elimination combined with that of epsilon-samples. We present four applications of our result. The first is a data structure for answering point-enclosure queries among a family of semi-algebraic sets in R^d in O(log n) time, with storage complexity and expected preprocessing time of O(n^{d+epsilon}). The second is a data structure for answering range search queries with semi-algebraic ranges in O(log n) time, with O(n^{t+epsilon}) storage and expected preprocessing time, where t > 0 is an integer that depends on d and the description complexity of the ranges. The third is a data structure for answering vertical ray-shooting queries among semi-algebraic sets in R^{d} in O(log^2 n) time, with O(n^{d+epsilon}) storage and expected preprocessing time. The fourth is an efficient algorithm for cutting algebraic planar curves into pseudo-segments.
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Pankaj K. Agarwal, Boris Aronov, Esther Ezra, and Joshua Zahl. An Efficient Algorithm for Generalized Polynomial Partitioning and Its Applications. In 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 129, pp. 5:1-5:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{agarwal_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.5,
  author =	{Agarwal, Pankaj K. and Aronov, Boris and Ezra, Esther and Zahl, Joshua},
  title =	{{An Efficient Algorithm for Generalized Polynomial Partitioning and Its Applications}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-104-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{129},
  editor =	{Barequet, Gill and Wang, Yusu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104096},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Polynomial partitioning, quantifier elimination, semi-algebraic range spaces, epsilon-samples}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.8
Bipartite Diameter and Other Measures Under Translation

Authors: Boris Aronov, Omrit Filtser, Matthew J. Katz, and Khadijeh Sheikhan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 126, 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019)

Abstract
Let A and B be two sets of points in R^d, where |A|=|B|=n and the distance between them is defined by some bipartite measure dist(A, B). We study several problems in which the goal is to translate the set B, so that dist(A, B) is minimized. The main measures that we consider are (i) the diameter in two and three dimensions, that is diam(A,B) = max {d(a,b) | a in A, b in B}, where d(a,b) is the Euclidean distance between a and b, (ii) the uniformity in the plane, that is uni(A,B) = diam(A,B) - d(A,B), where d(A,B)=min{d(a,b) | a in A, b in B}, and (iii) the union width in two and three dimensions, that is union_width(A,B) = width(A cup B). For each of these measures we present efficient algorithms for finding a translation of B that minimizes the distance: For diameter we present near-linear-time algorithms in R^2 and R^3, for uniformity we describe a roughly O(n^{9/4})-time algorithm, and for union width we offer a near-linear-time algorithm in R^2 and a quadratic-time one in R^3.
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Boris Aronov, Omrit Filtser, Matthew J. Katz, and Khadijeh Sheikhan. Bipartite Diameter and Other Measures Under Translation. In 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 126, pp. 8:1-8:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2019.8,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Filtser, Omrit and Katz, Matthew J. and Sheikhan, Khadijeh},
  title =	{{Bipartite Diameter and Other Measures Under Translation}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-100-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{126},
  editor =	{Niedermeier, Rolf and Paul, Christophe},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-102476},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Translation-invariant similarity measures, Geometric optimization, Minimum-width annulus}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.145
Resolving SINR Queries in a Dynamic Setting

Authors: Boris Aronov, Gali Bar-On, and Matthew J. Katz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 107, 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)

Abstract
We consider a set of transmitters broadcasting simultaneously on the same frequency under the SINR model. Transmission power may vary from one transmitter to another, and a signal's strength decreases (path loss or path attenuation) by some constant power alpha of the distance traveled. Roughly, a receiver at a given location can hear a specific transmitter only if the transmitter's signal is stronger than the signal of all other transmitters, combined. An SINR query is to determine whether a receiver at a given location can hear any transmitter, and if yes, which one. An approximate answer to an SINR query is such that one gets a definite yes or definite no, when the ratio between the strongest signal and all other signals combined is well above or well below the reception threshold, while the answer in the intermediate range is allowed to be either yes or no. We describe several compact data structures that support approximate SINR queries in the plane in a dynamic context, i.e., where both queries and updates (insertion or deletion of a transmitter) can be performed efficiently.
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Boris Aronov, Gali Bar-On, and Matthew J. Katz. Resolving SINR Queries in a Dynamic Setting. In 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 107, pp. 145:1-145:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.145,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Bar-On, Gali and Katz, Matthew J.},
  title =	{{Resolving SINR Queries in a Dynamic Setting}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)},
  pages =	{145:1--145:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-076-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{107},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Kaklamanis, Christos and Marx, D\'{a}niel and Sannella, Donald},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.145},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-91495},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.145},
  annote =	{Keywords: Wireless networks, SINR, dynamic insertion and deletion, interference cancellation, range searching}
}
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Complete Volume
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017
LIPIcs, Volume 77, SoCG'17, Complete Volume

Authors: Boris Aronov and Matthew J. Katz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 77, 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)

Abstract
LIPIcs, Volume 77, SoCG'17, Complete Volume
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33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 77, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@Proceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2017,
  title =	{{LIPIcs, Volume 77, SoCG'17, Complete Volume}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-038-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{77},
  editor =	{Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-73012},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017},
  annote =	{Keywords: Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity, Nonnumerical Algorithms and Problems – Geometrical problems and computations, Discrete Mathematics}
}
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Front Matter
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.0
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Foreword, Conference Organization, External Reviewers, Sponsors

Authors: Boris Aronov and Matthew J. Katz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 77, 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)

Abstract
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Foreword, Conference Organization, External Reviewers, Sponsors
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33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 77, pp. 0:i-0:xviii, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.0,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J.},
  title =	{{Front Matter, Table of Contents, Foreword, Conference Organization, External Reviewers, Sponsors}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)},
  pages =	{0:i--0:xviii},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-038-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{77},
  editor =	{Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.0},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-71770},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.0},
  annote =	{Keywords: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Foreword, Conference Organization, External Reviewers, Sponsors}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.30
Time-Space Trade-offs for Triangulating a Simple Polygon

Authors: Boris Aronov, Matias Korman, Simon Pratt, André van Renssen, and Marcel Roeloffzen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 53, 15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016)

Abstract
An s-workspace algorithm is an algorithm that has read-only access to the values of the input, write-only access to the output, and only uses O(s) additional words of space. We give a randomized s-workspace algorithm for triangulating a simple polygon P of n vertices, for any s up to n. The algorithm runs in O(n^2/s+n(log s)log^5(n/s)) expected time using O(s) variables, for any s up to n. In particular, the algorithm runs in O(n^2/s) expected time for most values of s.
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Boris Aronov, Matias Korman, Simon Pratt, André van Renssen, and Marcel Roeloffzen. Time-Space Trade-offs for Triangulating a Simple Polygon. In 15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 53, pp. 30:1-30:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.30,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Korman, Matias and Pratt, Simon and van Renssen, André and Roeloffzen, Marcel},
  title =	{{Time-Space Trade-offs for Triangulating a Simple Polygon}},
  booktitle =	{15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-011-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{53},
  editor =	{Pagh, Rasmus},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60522},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: simple polygon, triangulation, shortest path, time-space trade-off}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.10
The Number of Holes in the Union of Translates of a Convex Set in Three Dimensions

Authors: Boris Aronov, Otfried Cheong, Michael Gene Dobbins, and Xavier Goaoc

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 51, 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)

Abstract
We show that the union of translates of a convex body in three dimensional space can have a cubic number holes in the worst case, where a hole in a set is a connected component of its compliment. This refutes a 20-year-old conjecture. As a consequence, we also obtain improved lower bounds on the complexity of motion planning problems and of Voronoi diagrams with convex distance functions.
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Boris Aronov, Otfried Cheong, Michael Gene Dobbins, and Xavier Goaoc. The Number of Holes in the Union of Translates of a Convex Set in Three Dimensions. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 10:1-10:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{aronov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.10,
  author =	{Aronov, Boris and Cheong, Otfried and Dobbins, Michael Gene and Goaoc, Xavier},
  title =	{{The Number of Holes in the Union of Translates of a Convex Set in Three Dimensions}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-009-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{51},
  editor =	{Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Lubiw, Anna},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59024},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Union complexity, Convex sets, Motion planning}
}
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