{"title":"Piercing pairwise intersecting geodesic disks by five points","authors":"A. Karim Abu-Affash , Paz Carmi , Meytal Maman","doi":"10.1016/j.comgeo.2022.101947","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Given a simple polygon </span><em>P</em> on <em>n</em> vertices and a set <span><math><mi>D</mi></math></span> of <em>m</em> pairwise intersecting geodesic disks in <em>P</em>, we show that five points in <em>P</em> are always sufficient to pierce all the disks in <span><math><mi>D</mi></math></span>. The points can be computed in <span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>m</mi><mo>)</mo><mi>log</mi><mo></mo><msub><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span> time, where <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> is the number of the reflex vertices of <em>P</em>. This improves the previous bound of 14, obtained by Bose, Carmi, and Shermer <span>[1]</span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51001,"journal":{"name":"Computational Geometry-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computational Geometry-Theory and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925772122000906","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Given a simple polygon P on n vertices and a set of m pairwise intersecting geodesic disks in P, we show that five points in P are always sufficient to pierce all the disks in . The points can be computed in time, where is the number of the reflex vertices of P. This improves the previous bound of 14, obtained by Bose, Carmi, and Shermer [1].
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Computational Geometry is a forum for research in theoretical and applied aspects of computational geometry. The journal publishes fundamental research in all areas of the subject, as well as disseminating information on the applications, techniques, and use of computational geometry. Computational Geometry publishes articles on the design and analysis of geometric algorithms. All aspects of computational geometry are covered, including the numerical, graph theoretical and combinatorial aspects. Also welcomed are computational geometry solutions to fundamental problems arising in computer graphics, pattern recognition, robotics, image processing, CAD-CAM, VLSI design and geographical information systems.
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