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Hauptverfasser: Chang, Hsien-Chih, Conroy, Jonathan, Le, Hung, Milenkovic, Lazar, Solomon, Shay, Than, Cuong
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Chang, Hsien-Chih
Conroy, Jonathan
Le, Hung
Milenkovic, Lazar
Solomon, Shay
Than, Cuong
author_facet Chang, Hsien-Chih
Conroy, Jonathan
Le, Hung
Milenkovic, Lazar
Solomon, Shay
Than, Cuong
contents A $(1+\varepsilon)\textit{-stretch tree cover}$ of a metric space is a collection of trees, where every pair of points has a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch path in one of the trees. The celebrated $\textit{Dumbbell Theorem}$ [Arya et~al. STOC'95] states that any set of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space admits a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch tree cover with $O_d(\varepsilon^{-d} \cdot \log(1/\varepsilon))$ trees, where the $O_d$ notation suppresses terms that depend solely on the dimension~$d$. The running time of their construction is $O_d(n \log n \cdot \frac{\log(1/\varepsilon)}{\varepsilon^{d}} + n \cdot \varepsilon^{-2d})$. Since the same point may occur in multiple levels of the tree, the $\textit{maximum degree}$ of a point in the tree cover may be as large as $Ω(\log Φ)$, where $Φ$ is the aspect ratio of the input point set. In this work we present a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch tree cover with $O_d(\varepsilon^{-d+1} \cdot \log(1/\varepsilon))$ trees, which is optimal (up to the $\log(1/\varepsilon)$ factor). Moreover, the maximum degree of points in any tree is an $\textit{absolute constant}$ for any $d$. As a direct corollary, we obtain an optimal {routing scheme} in low-dimensional Euclidean spaces. We also present a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch $\textit{Steiner}$ tree cover (that may use Steiner points) with $O_d(\varepsilon^{(-d+1)/{2}} \cdot \log(1/\varepsilon))$ trees, which too is optimal. The running time of our two constructions is linear in the number of edges in the respective tree covers, ignoring an additive $O_d(n \log n)$ term; this improves over the running time underlying the Dumbbell Theorem.
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spellingShingle Optimal Euclidean Tree Covers
Chang, Hsien-Chih
Conroy, Jonathan
Le, Hung
Milenkovic, Lazar
Solomon, Shay
Than, Cuong
Computational Geometry
A $(1+\varepsilon)\textit{-stretch tree cover}$ of a metric space is a collection of trees, where every pair of points has a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch path in one of the trees. The celebrated $\textit{Dumbbell Theorem}$ [Arya et~al. STOC'95] states that any set of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space admits a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch tree cover with $O_d(\varepsilon^{-d} \cdot \log(1/\varepsilon))$ trees, where the $O_d$ notation suppresses terms that depend solely on the dimension~$d$. The running time of their construction is $O_d(n \log n \cdot \frac{\log(1/\varepsilon)}{\varepsilon^{d}} + n \cdot \varepsilon^{-2d})$. Since the same point may occur in multiple levels of the tree, the $\textit{maximum degree}$ of a point in the tree cover may be as large as $Ω(\log Φ)$, where $Φ$ is the aspect ratio of the input point set. In this work we present a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch tree cover with $O_d(\varepsilon^{-d+1} \cdot \log(1/\varepsilon))$ trees, which is optimal (up to the $\log(1/\varepsilon)$ factor). Moreover, the maximum degree of points in any tree is an $\textit{absolute constant}$ for any $d$. As a direct corollary, we obtain an optimal {routing scheme} in low-dimensional Euclidean spaces. We also present a $(1+\varepsilon)$-stretch $\textit{Steiner}$ tree cover (that may use Steiner points) with $O_d(\varepsilon^{(-d+1)/{2}} \cdot \log(1/\varepsilon))$ trees, which too is optimal. The running time of our two constructions is linear in the number of edges in the respective tree covers, ignoring an additive $O_d(n \log n)$ term; this improves over the running time underlying the Dumbbell Theorem.
title Optimal Euclidean Tree Covers
topic Computational Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17754