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Fixed-orientation equilateral triangle matching of point sets
, A. Biniaz, A. Maheshwari, M. Smid
Published in
2013
Volume: 7748 LNCS
   
Pages: 17 - 28
Abstract
Given a point set P and a class of geometric objects, is a geometric graph with vertex set P such that any two vertices p and q are adjacent if and only if there is some C ∈ C containing both p and q but no other points from P. We study G∇(P) graphs where ∇ is the class of downward equilateral triangles (ie. equilateral triangles with one of their sides parallel to the x-axis and the corner opposite to this side below that side). For point sets in general position, these graphs have been shown to be equivalent to half-Θ6 graphs and TD-Delaunay graphs. The main result in our paper is that for point sets P in general position, G ∇(P) always contains a matching of size at least ⌈n - 2/3⌉ and this bound cannot be improved above ⌈n - 1/3⌉. We also give some structural properties of GStar of David(P) graphs, where Star of David is the class which contains both upward and downward equilateral triangles. We show that for point sets in general position, the block cut point graph of GStar of David(P) is simply a path. Through the equivalence of GStar of David(P) graphs with Θ6 graphs, we also deduce that any Θ6 graph can have at most 5n - 11 edges, for point sets in general position. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ISSN03029743