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Routing from Pentagon to Octagon Delaunay Graphs

Authors: Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, and John Stuart

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 322, 35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024)


Abstract
The standard Delaunay triangulation is a geometric graph whose vertices are points in the plane, and two vertices share an edge if they lie on the boundary of an empty disk. If the disk is replaced with a homothet of a fixed convex shape C, then the resulting graph is called a C-Delaunay graph. We study the problem of local routing in C-Delaunay graphs where C is a regular polygon having five to eight sides. In particular, we generalize the routing algorithm of Chew for square-Delaunay graphs (Chew. SCG 1986, 169-177) in order to obtain the following approximate upper bounds of 4.640, 6.429, 8.531 and 4.054 on the spanning and routing ratios for pentagon-, hexagon-, septagon-, and octagon-Delaunay graphs, respectively. The exact expression for the upper bounds of the routing ratio is Ψ(n):= √{1+((cos(2π/n)+n-1)/sin(2π/n))^2} (if n ∈ {5,6,7}), √{1+((cos(π/8)cos(3π/8)+3)/(cos(π/8)sin(3π/8)))^2} (if n = 8). We show that these bounds are tight for the output of our routing algorithm by providing a point set where these bounds are achieved. We also include lower bounds of 1.708 and 1.995 on the spanning and routing ratios of the pentagon-Delaunay graph. Our upper bounds yield a significant improvement over the previous routing ratio upper bounds for this problem, which previously sat at around 400 for the pentagon, septagon, and octagon as well as 18 for the hexagon. Our routing ratios also provide significant improvements over the previously best known spanning ratios for pentagon-, septagon- and octagon-Delaunay graphs, which were around 45.

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Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, and John Stuart. Routing from Pentagon to Octagon Delaunay Graphs. In 35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 322, pp. 14:1-14:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{bose_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.14,
  author =	{Bose, Prosenjit and De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Stuart, John},
  title =	{{Routing from Pentagon to Octagon Delaunay Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-354-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{322},
  editor =	{Mestre, Juli\'{a}n and Wirth, Anthony},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-221411},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geometric Spanners, Generalized Delaunay Graphs, Local Routing Algorithms}
}
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Noncrossing Longest Paths and Cycles

Authors: Greg Aloupis, Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, David Eppstein, Anil Maheshwari, Saeed Odak, Michiel Smid, Csaba D. Tóth, and Pavel Valtr

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 320, 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024)


Abstract
Edge crossings in geometric graphs are sometimes undesirable as they could lead to unwanted situations such as collisions in motion planning and inconsistency in VLSI layout. Short geometric structures such as shortest perfect matchings, shortest spanning trees, shortest spanning paths, and shortest spanning cycles on a given point set are inherently noncrossing. However, the longest such structures need not be noncrossing. In fact, it is intuitive to expect many edge crossings in various geometric graphs that are longest. Recently, Álvarez-Rebollar, Cravioto-Lagos, Marín, Solé-Pi, and Urrutia (Graphs and Combinatorics, 2024) constructed a set of points for which the longest perfect matching is noncrossing. They raised several challenging questions in this direction. In particular, they asked whether the longest spanning path, on any finite set of points in the plane, must have a pair of crossing edges. They also conjectured that the longest spanning cycle must have a pair of crossing edges. In this paper, we give a negative answer to the question and also refute the conjecture. We present a framework for constructing arbitrarily large point sets for which the longest perfect matchings, the longest spanning paths, and the longest spanning cycles are noncrossing.

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Greg Aloupis, Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, David Eppstein, Anil Maheshwari, Saeed Odak, Michiel Smid, Csaba D. Tóth, and Pavel Valtr. Noncrossing Longest Paths and Cycles. In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 36:1-36:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{aloupis_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2024.36,
  author =	{Aloupis, Greg and Biniaz, Ahmad and Bose, Prosenjit and De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Eppstein, David and Maheshwari, Anil and Odak, Saeed and Smid, Michiel and T\'{o}th, Csaba D. and Valtr, Pavel},
  title =	{{Noncrossing Longest Paths and Cycles}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024)},
  pages =	{36:1--36:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-343-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{320},
  editor =	{Felsner, Stefan and Klein, Karsten},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2024.36},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-213203},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2024.36},
  annote =	{Keywords: Longest Paths, Longest Cycles, Noncrossing Paths, Noncrossing Cycles}
}
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Pursuit-Evasion in Graphs: Zombies, Lazy Zombies and a Survivor

Authors: Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, and Thomas Shermer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 248, 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)


Abstract
We study zombies and survivor, a variant of the game of cops and robber on graphs. In this variant, the single survivor plays the role of the robber and attempts to escape from the zombies that play the role of the cops. The zombies are restricted, on their turn, to always follow an edge of a shortest path towards the survivor. Let z(G) be the smallest number of zombies required to catch the survivor on a graph G with n vertices. We show that there exist outerplanar graphs and visibility graphs of simple polygons such that z(G) = Θ(n). We also show that there exist maximum-degree-3 outerplanar graphs such that z(G) = Ω(n/log(n)). Let z_L(G) be the smallest number of lazy zombies (zombies that can stay still on their turn) required to catch the survivor on a graph G. We show that lazy zombies are more powerful than normal zombies but less powerful than cops. We prove that z_L(G) ≤ 2 for connected outerplanar graphs and this bound is tight in the worst case. We show that z_L(G) ≤ k for connected graphs with treedepth k. This result implies that z_L(G) is at most (k+1)log n for connected graphs with treewidth k, O(√n) for connected planar graphs, O(√{gn}) for connected graphs with genus g and O(h√{hn}) for connected graphs with any excluded h-vertex minor. Our results on lazy zombies still hold when an adversary chooses the initial positions of the zombies.

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Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, and Thomas Shermer. Pursuit-Evasion in Graphs: Zombies, Lazy Zombies and a Survivor. In 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 248, pp. 56:1-56:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{bose_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.56,
  author =	{Bose, Prosenjit and De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Shermer, Thomas},
  title =	{{Pursuit-Evasion in Graphs: Zombies, Lazy Zombies and a Survivor}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)},
  pages =	{56:1--56:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-258-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{248},
  editor =	{Bae, Sang Won and Park, Heejin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.56},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173418},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.56},
  annote =	{Keywords: Pursuit-evasion games, Outerplanar, Graphs, Treedepth, Treewidth}
}
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Convex Polygons in Cartesian Products

Authors: Jean-Lou De Carufel, Adrian Dumitrescu, Wouter Meulemans, Tim Ophelders, Claire Pennarun, Csaba D. Tóth, and Sander Verdonschot

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


Abstract
We study several problems concerning convex polygons whose vertices lie in a Cartesian product of two sets of n real numbers (for short, grid). First, we prove that every such grid contains a convex polygon with Omega(log n) vertices and that this bound is tight up to a constant factor. We generalize this result to d dimensions (for a fixed d in N), and obtain a tight lower bound of Omega(log^{d-1}n) for the maximum number of points in convex position in a d-dimensional grid. Second, we present polynomial-time algorithms for computing the longest convex polygonal chain in a grid that contains no two points with the same x- or y-coordinate. We show that the maximum size of such a convex polygon can be efficiently approximated up to a factor of 2. Finally, we present exponential bounds on the maximum number of convex polygons in these grids, and for some restricted variants. These bounds are tight up to polynomial factors.

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Jean-Lou De Carufel, Adrian Dumitrescu, Wouter Meulemans, Tim Ophelders, Claire Pennarun, Csaba D. Tóth, and Sander Verdonschot. Convex Polygons in Cartesian Products. In 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 129, pp. 22:1-22:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{decarufel_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.22,
  author =	{De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Dumitrescu, Adrian and Meulemans, Wouter and Ophelders, Tim and Pennarun, Claire and T\'{o}th, Csaba D. and Verdonschot, Sander},
  title =	{{Convex Polygons in Cartesian Products}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:17},
  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.2019.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104267},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres theorem, Cartesian product, convexity, polyhedron, recursive construction, approximation algorithm}
}
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Improved Routing on the Delaunay Triangulation

Authors: Nicolas Bonichon, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Vincent Despré, Darryl Hill, and Michiel Smid

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 112, 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)


Abstract
A geometric graph G=(P,E) is a set of points in the plane and edges between pairs of points, where the weight of an edge is equal to the Euclidean distance between its two endpoints. In local routing we find a path through G from a source vertex s to a destination vertex t, using only knowledge of the current vertex, its incident edges, and the locations of s and t. We present an algorithm for local routing on the Delaunay triangulation, and show that it finds a path between a source vertex s and a target vertex t that is not longer than 3.56|st|, improving the previous bound of 5.9|st|.

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Nicolas Bonichon, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Vincent Despré, Darryl Hill, and Michiel Smid. Improved Routing on the Delaunay Triangulation. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 22:1-22:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{bonichon_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2018.22,
  author =	{Bonichon, Nicolas and Bose, Prosenjit and De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Despr\'{e}, Vincent and Hill, Darryl and Smid, Michiel},
  title =	{{Improved Routing on the Delaunay Triangulation}},
  booktitle =	{26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-081-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{112},
  editor =	{Azar, Yossi and Bast, Hannah and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-94857},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Delaunay, local routing, geometric, graph}
}
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Towards Plane Spanners of Degree 3

Authors: Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Cyril Gavoille, Anil Maheshwari, and Michiel Smid

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 64, 27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)


Abstract
Let S be a finite set of points in the plane that are in convex position. We present an algorithm that constructs a plane frac{3+4 pi}{3}-spanner of S whose vertex degree is at most 3. Let Lambda be the vertex set of a finite non-uniform rectangular lattice in the plane. We present an algorithm that constructs a plane 3 sqrt{2}-spanner for Lambda whose vertex degree is at most 3. For points that are in the plane and in general position, we show how to compute plane degree-3 spanners with a linear number of Steiner points.

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Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Cyril Gavoille, Anil Maheshwari, and Michiel Smid. Towards Plane Spanners of Degree 3. In 27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 64, pp. 19:1-19:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{biniaz_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.19,
  author =	{Biniaz, Ahmad and Bose, Prosenjit and De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Gavoille, Cyril and Maheshwari, Anil and Smid, Michiel},
  title =	{{Towards Plane Spanners of Degree 3}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-026-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{64},
  editor =	{Hong, Seok-Hee},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67887},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: plane spanners, degree-3 spanners, convex position, non-uniform lattice}
}
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On Interference Among Moving Sensors and Related Problems

Authors: Jean-Lou De Carufel, Matthew J. Katz, Matias Korman, André van Renssen, Marcel Roeloffzen, and Shakhar Smorodinsky

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 57, 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016)


Abstract
We show that for any set of n moving points in R^d and any parameter 2<=k<n, one can select a fixed non-empty subset of the points of size O(k log k), such that the Voronoi diagram of this subset is "balanced" at any given time (i.e., it contains O(n/k) points per cell). We also show that the bound O(k log k) is near optimal even for the one dimensional case in which points move linearly in time. As an application, we show that one can assign communication radii to the sensors of a network of $n$ moving sensors so that at any given time, their interference is O( (n log n)^0.5). This is optimal up to an O((log n)^0.5) factor.

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Jean-Lou De Carufel, Matthew J. Katz, Matias Korman, André van Renssen, Marcel Roeloffzen, and Shakhar Smorodinsky. On Interference Among Moving Sensors and Related Problems. In 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 57, pp. 34:1-34:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{decarufel_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2016.34,
  author =	{De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Katz, Matthew J. and Korman, Matias and van Renssen, Andr\'{e} and Roeloffzen, Marcel and Smorodinsky, Shakhar},
  title =	{{On Interference Among Moving Sensors and Related Problems}},
  booktitle =	{24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016)},
  pages =	{34:1--34:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-015-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{57},
  editor =	{Sankowski, Piotr and Zaroliagis, Christos},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-63850},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: Range spaces, Voronoi diagrams, moving points, facility location, interference minimization}
}
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A Plane 1.88-Spanner for Points in Convex Position

Authors: Mahdi Amani, Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Anil Maheshwari, and Michiel Smid

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


Abstract
Let S be a set of n points in the plane that is in convex position. For a real number t>1, we say that a point p in S is t-good if for every point q of S, the shortest-path distance between p and q along the boundary of the convex hull of S is at most t times the Euclidean distance between p and q. We prove that any point that is part of (an approximation to) the diameter of S is 1.88-good. Using this, we show how to compute a plane 1.88-spanner of S in O(n) time, assuming that the points of S are given in sorted order along their convex hull. Previously, the best known stretch factor for plane spanners was 1.998 (which, in fact, holds for any point set, i.e., even if it is not in convex position).

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Mahdi Amani, Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Anil Maheshwari, and Michiel Smid. A Plane 1.88-Spanner for Points in Convex Position. In 15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 53, pp. 25:1-25:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{amani_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.25,
  author =	{Amani, Mahdi and Biniaz, Ahmad and Bose, Prosenjit and De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Maheshwari, Anil and Smid, Michiel},
  title =	{{A Plane 1.88-Spanner for Points in Convex Position}},
  booktitle =	{15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:14},
  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.2016.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60474},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: points in convex position, plane spanner}
}
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Minimizing the Continuous Diameter when Augmenting Paths and Cycles with Shortcuts

Authors: Jean-Lou De Carufel, Carsten Grimm, Anil Maheshwari, and Michiel Smid

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


Abstract
We seek to augment a geometric network in the Euclidean plane with shortcuts to minimize its continuous diameter, i.e., the largest network distance between any two points on the augmented network. Unlike in the discrete setting where a shortcut connects two vertices and the diameter is measured between vertices, we take all points along the edges of the network into account when placing a shortcut and when measuring distances in the augmented network. We study this network augmentation problem for paths and cycles. For paths, we determine an optimal shortcut in linear time. For cycles, we show that a single shortcut never decreases the continuous diameter and that two shortcuts always suffice to reduce the continuous diameter. Furthermore, we characterize optimal pairs of shortcuts for convex and non-convex cycles. Finally, we develop a linear time algorithm that produces an optimal pair of shortcuts for convex cycles. Apart from the algorithms, our results extend to rectifiable curves. Our work reveals some of the underlying challenges that must be overcome when addressing the discrete version of this network augmentation problem, where we minimize the discrete diameter of a network with shortcuts that connect only vertices.

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Jean-Lou De Carufel, Carsten Grimm, Anil Maheshwari, and Michiel Smid. Minimizing the Continuous Diameter when Augmenting Paths and Cycles with Shortcuts. In 15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 53, pp. 27:1-27:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{decarufel_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.27,
  author =	{De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Grimm, Carsten and Maheshwari, Anil and Smid, Michiel},
  title =	{{Minimizing the Continuous Diameter when Augmenting Paths and Cycles with Shortcuts}},
  booktitle =	{15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:14},
  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.2016.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60492},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2016.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: Network Augmentation, Shortcuts, Diameter, Paths, Cycles}
}
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A Linear-Time Algorithm for the Geodesic Center of a Simple Polygon

Authors: Hee Kap Ahn, Luis Barba, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Matias Korman, and Eunjin Oh

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 34, 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)


Abstract
Let P be a closed simple polygon with n vertices. For any two points in P, the geodesic distance between them is the length of the shortest path that connects them among all paths contained in P. The geodesic center of P is the unique point in P that minimizes the largest geodesic distance to all other points of P. In 1989, Pollack, Sharir and Rote [Disc. & Comput. Geom. 89] showed an O(n log n)-time algorithm that computes the geodesic center of P. Since then, a longstanding question has been whether this running time can be improved (explicitly posed by Mitchell [Handbook of Computational Geometry, 2000]). In this paper we affirmatively answer this question and present a linear time algorithm to solve this problem.

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Hee Kap Ahn, Luis Barba, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Matias Korman, and Eunjin Oh. A Linear-Time Algorithm for the Geodesic Center of a Simple Polygon. In 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 34, pp. 209-223, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)


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@InProceedings{ahn_et_al:LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.209,
  author =	{Ahn, Hee Kap and Barba, Luis and Bose, Prosenjit and De Carufel, Jean-Lou and Korman, Matias and Oh, Eunjin},
  title =	{{A Linear-Time Algorithm for the Geodesic Center of a Simple Polygon}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)},
  pages =	{209--223},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-83-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{34},
  editor =	{Arge, Lars and Pach, J\'{a}nos},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.209},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-51448},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.209},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geodesic distance, facility location, 1-center problem, simple polygons}
}
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