Diameter, width, closest line pair, and parametric searching

Bernard Chazelle*, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Leonidas Guibas, Micha Sharir

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Abstract

We apply Megiddo's parametric searching technique to several geometric optimization problems and derive significantly improved solutions for them. We obtain, for any fixed ε>0, an O(n 1+ε) algorithm for computing the diameter of a point set in 3-space, an O(8/5+ε) algorithm for computing the width of such a set, and on O(n 8/5+ε) algorithm for computing the closest pair in a set of n lines in space. All these algorithms are deterministic.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)183-196
Number of pages14
JournalDiscrete and Computational Geometry
Volume10
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1993

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