Rainbow polygons for colored point sets in the plane

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Hauptverfasser: Flores-Peñaloza, David, Kano, Mikio, Martínez-Sandoval, Leonardo, Orden, David, Tejel, Javier, Tóth, Csaba D., Urrutia, Jorge, Vogtenhuber, Birgit
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author Flores-Peñaloza, David
Kano, Mikio
Martínez-Sandoval, Leonardo
Orden, David
Tejel, Javier
Tóth, Csaba D.
Urrutia, Jorge
Vogtenhuber, Birgit
author_facet Flores-Peñaloza, David
Kano, Mikio
Martínez-Sandoval, Leonardo
Orden, David
Tejel, Javier
Tóth, Csaba D.
Urrutia, Jorge
Vogtenhuber, Birgit
contents Given a colored point set in the plane, a perfect rainbow polygon is a simple polygon that contains exactly one point of each color, either in its interior or on its boundary. Let $\operatorname{rb-index}(S)$ denote the smallest size of a perfect rainbow polygon for a colored point set $S$, and let $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)$ be the maximum of $\operatorname{rb-index}(S)$ over all $k$-colored point sets in general position; that is, every $k$-colored point set $S$ has a perfect rainbow polygon with at most $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)$ vertices. In this paper, we determine the values of $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)$ up to $k=7$, which is the first case where $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)\neq k$, and we prove that for $k\ge 5$, \[ \frac{40\lfloor (k-1)/2 \rfloor -8}{19} %Birgit: \leq\operatorname{rb-index}(k)\leq 10 \bigg\lfloor\frac{k}{7}\bigg\rfloor + 11. \] Furthermore, for a $k$-colored set of $n$ points in the plane in general position, a perfect rainbow polygon with at most $10 \lfloor\frac{k}{7}\rfloor + 11$ vertices can be computed in $O(n\log n)$ time.
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spellingShingle Rainbow polygons for colored point sets in the plane
Flores-Peñaloza, David
Kano, Mikio
Martínez-Sandoval, Leonardo
Orden, David
Tejel, Javier
Tóth, Csaba D.
Urrutia, Jorge
Vogtenhuber, Birgit
Computational Geometry
Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
Given a colored point set in the plane, a perfect rainbow polygon is a simple polygon that contains exactly one point of each color, either in its interior or on its boundary. Let $\operatorname{rb-index}(S)$ denote the smallest size of a perfect rainbow polygon for a colored point set $S$, and let $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)$ be the maximum of $\operatorname{rb-index}(S)$ over all $k$-colored point sets in general position; that is, every $k$-colored point set $S$ has a perfect rainbow polygon with at most $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)$ vertices. In this paper, we determine the values of $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)$ up to $k=7$, which is the first case where $\operatorname{rb-index}(k)\neq k$, and we prove that for $k\ge 5$, \[ \frac{40\lfloor (k-1)/2 \rfloor -8}{19} %Birgit: \leq\operatorname{rb-index}(k)\leq 10 \bigg\lfloor\frac{k}{7}\bigg\rfloor + 11. \] Furthermore, for a $k$-colored set of $n$ points in the plane in general position, a perfect rainbow polygon with at most $10 \lfloor\frac{k}{7}\rfloor + 11$ vertices can be computed in $O(n\log n)$ time.
title Rainbow polygons for colored point sets in the plane
topic Computational Geometry
Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10139