Abrahamsen, Mikkel
[Author];
de Berg, Mark
[Author];
Buchin, Kevin
[Author];
Mehr, Mehran
[Author];
Mehrabi, Ali D.
[Author]
;
Mikkel Abrahamsen and Mark de Berg and Kevin Buchin and Mehran Mehr and Ali D. Mehrabi
[Contributor]
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Description:
Let P be a set of n points in the plane. We consider the problem of partitioning P into two subsets P_1 and P_2 such that the sum of the perimeters of CH(P_1) and CH(P_2) is minimized, where CH(P_i) denotes the convex hull of P_i. The problem was first studied by Mitchell and Wynters in 1991 who gave an O(n^2) time algorithm. Despite considerable progress on related problems, no subquadratic time algorithm for this problem was found so far. We present an exact algorithm solving the problem in O(n log^4 n) time and a (1+e)-approximation algorithm running in O(n + 1/e^2 log^4(1/e)) time.