Deletion in abstract Voronoi diagrams in expected linear time and related problems

Kolja Junginger; Evanthia Papadopoulou

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Deletion in abstract Voronoi diagrams in expected linear time and related problems

Kolja Junginger·Evanthia Papadopoulou

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Updating an abstract Voronoi diagram after deletion of one site in linear time has been a well-known open problem; similarly, for concrete Voronoi diagrams of non-point sites. In this paper, we present an expected linear-time algorithm to update an abstract Voronoi diagram after deletion of one site. We introduce the concept of a Voronoi-like diagram, a relaxed version of an abstract Voronoi construct that has a structure similar to an ordinary Voronoi diagram, without, however, being one. We formalize the concept, and prove that it is robust under insertion, therefore, enabling its use in incremental constructions. The time-complexity analysis of the resulting simple randomized incremental construction is non-standard, and interesting in its own right, because the intermediate Voronoi-like structures are order-dependent. We further extend the approach to compute the following structures in expected linear time: the order-(k+1) subdivision within an order-k Voronoi region, and the farthest abstract Voronoi diagram after the order of its regions at infinity is known.

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Kolja Junginger, Evanthia Papadopoulou. 2018-03-14. Deletion in abstract Voronoi diagrams in expected linear time and related problems. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05372

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