• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: Minimum Perimeter-Sum Partitions in the Plane
  • Contributor: Abrahamsen, Mikkel [Author]; de Berg, Mark [Author]; Buchin, Kevin [Author]; Mehr, Mehran [Author]; Mehrabi, Ali D. [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2017
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.4
  • Keywords: Computational geometry ; clustering ; convex hull ; minimum-perimeter partition
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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.
  • Access State: Open Access