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Spanning Ratio and Maximum Detour of Rectilinear Paths in the L 1 Plane

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Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2010)

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The spanning ratio and maximum detour of a graph G embedded in a metric space measure how well G approximates the minimum complete graph containing G and metric space, respectively. In this paper we show that computing the spanning ratio of a rectilinear path P in L 1 space has a lower bound of Ω(n logn) in the algebraic computation tree model and describe a deterministic O(n log2 n) time algorithm. On the other hand, we give a deterministic O(n log2 n) time algorithm for computing the maximum detour of a rectilinear path P in L 1 space and obtain an O(n) time algorithm when P is a monotone rectilinear path.

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  1. Institut für Informatik I, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Ansgar Grüne, Rolf Klein & Elmar Langetepe

  2. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

    Tien-Ching Lin, Teng-Kai Yu & D. T. Lee

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Teng-Kai Yu & D. T. Lee

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    Sheung-Hung Poon

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Grüne, A. et al. (2010). Spanning Ratio and Maximum Detour of Rectilinear Paths in the L 1 Plane. In: Cheong, O., Chwa, KY., Park, K. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6507. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17514-5_11

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