Improved bounds for the union of locally fat objects in the plane

Boris Aronov; Mark De Berg; Esther Ezrar; Micha Sharir

doi:10.1137/120891241

Improved bounds for the union of locally fat objects in the plane

Boris Aronov, Mark De Berg, Esther Ezrar, Micha Sharir

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Abstract

We show that, for any γ > 0, the combinatorial complexity of the union of n locally γ-fat objects of constant complexity in the plane is nγ4 2O(log n). For the special case of γ-fat triangles,the bound improves to O(n log n + n/γ log2 1/γ ).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	543-572
Number of pages	30
Journal	SIAM Journal on Computing
Volume	43
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1137/120891241
State	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Combinatorial geometry
Fat objects
Union complexity

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