On Approximating the Weighted Region Problem in Square Tessellations

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Main Authors: Kakimura, Naonori, Katsu, Rio
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author Kakimura, Naonori
Katsu, Rio
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Katsu, Rio
contents The weighted region problem is the problem of finding the weighted shortest path on a plane consisting of polygonal regions with different weights. For the case when the plane is tessellated by squares, we can solve the problem approximately by finding the shortest path on a grid graph defined by placing a vertex at the center of each grid. In this note, we show that the obtained path admits $(\sqrt{2}+1)$-approximation. This improves the previous result of $2\sqrt{2}$.
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spellingShingle On Approximating the Weighted Region Problem in Square Tessellations
Kakimura, Naonori
Katsu, Rio
Computational Geometry
Data Structures and Algorithms
The weighted region problem is the problem of finding the weighted shortest path on a plane consisting of polygonal regions with different weights. For the case when the plane is tessellated by squares, we can solve the problem approximately by finding the shortest path on a grid graph defined by placing a vertex at the center of each grid. In this note, we show that the obtained path admits $(\sqrt{2}+1)$-approximation. This improves the previous result of $2\sqrt{2}$.
title On Approximating the Weighted Region Problem in Square Tessellations
topic Computational Geometry
Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18758