Decompositions, Partitions, and Coverings with Convex Polygons and Pseudo-Triangles

O. Aichholzer, C. Huemer, S. Renkl, B. Speckmann, and C. D. Tóth

Abstract:

We propose a novel subdivision of the plane that consists of both convex polygons and pseudo-triangles. This pseudo-convex decomposition is significantly sparser than either convex decompositions or pseudo-triangulations for planar point sets and simple polygons. We also introduce pseudo-convex partitions and coverings. We establish some basic properties and give combinatorial bounds on their complexity. Our upper bounds depend on new Ramsey-type results concerning disjoint empty convex k-gons in point sets.



Reference: O. Aichholzer, C. Huemer, S. Renkl, B. Speckmann, and C. D. Tóth. Decompositions, partitions, and coverings with convex polygons and pseudo-triangles. In P. U. Rastislav Královic, editor, Proceedings $31^{st}$ International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 4162, pages 86-97, Stará Lesná, Slovakia, 2006.

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