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Let G be an embedded planar graph whose edges may be curves. For two arbitrary points of G, we can compare the length of the shortest path in G connecting them against their Euclidean distance. The maximum of all these ratios is called the geometric dilation of G. Given a finite point set, we would like to know the smallest possible dilation of any graph that contains the given points. In this paper we prove that a dilation of 1.678 is always sufficient, and that π/2 = 1.570... is sometimes necessary in order to accommodate a finite set of points.
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Ebbers-Baumann, A., Grüne, A., Klein, R. (2003). On the Geometric Dilation of Finite Point Sets. In: Ibaraki, T., Katoh, N., Ono, H. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2906. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24587-2_27
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