Cover contact graphs

Autor: Nieves Atienza, Natalia de Castro, Carmen Cortés, M. Ángeles Garrido, Clara I. Grima, Gregorio Hernández, Alberto Márquez, Auxiliadora Moreno-González, Martin Nöllenburg, José Ramon Portillo, Pedro Reyes, Jesús Valenzuela, Maria Trinidad Villar, Alexander Wolff
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1920-180X
DOI: 10.20382/jocg.v3i1a6
Popis: We study problems that arise in the context of covering certain geometric objects called seeds (e.g., points or disks) by a set of other geometric objects called cover (e.g., a set of disks or homothetic triangles). We insist that the interiors of the seeds and the cover elements are pairwise disjoint, respectively, but they can touch. We call the contact graph of a cover a cover contact graph (CCG).We are interested in three types of tasks, both in the general case and in the special case of seeds on a line: (a) deciding whether a given seed set has a connected CCG, (b) deciding whether a given graph has a realization as a CCG on a given seed set, and (c) bounding the sizes of certain classes of CCG's.Concerning (a) we give efficient algorithms for the case that seeds are points and show that the problem becomes hard if seeds and covers are disks. Concerning (b) we show that this problem is hard even for point seeds and disk covers (given a fixed correspondence between graph vertices and seeds). Concerning (c) we obtain upper and lower bounds on the number of CCG's for point seeds.
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