Point Location in Incremental Planar Subdivisions

We study the point location problem in incremental (possibly disconnected) planar subdivisions, that is, dynamic subdivisions allowing insertions of edges and vertices only. Specifically, we present an O(n log n)-space data structure for this problem that supports queries in O(log^2 n) time and updates in O(log n log log n) amortized time. This is the first result that achieves polylogarithmic query and update times simultaneously in incremental planar subdivisions. Its update time is significantly faster than the update time of the best known data structure for fully-dynamic (possibly disconnected) planar subdivisions

Algorithms for Computing Maximum Cliques in Hyperbolic Random Graphs

In this paper, we study the maximum clique problem on hyperbolic random graphs. A hyperbolic random graph is a mathematical model for analyzing scale-free networks since it effectively explains the power-law degree distribution of scale-free networks. We propose a simple algorithm for finding a maximum clique in hyperbolic random graph. We first analyze the running time of our algorithm theoretically. We can compute a maximum clique on a hyperbolic random graph G in O(m + n^{4.5(1-?)}) expected time if a geometric representation is given or in O(m + n^{6(1-?)}) expected time if a geometric representation is not given, where n and m denote the numbers of vertices and edges of G, respectively, and ? denotes a parameter controlling the power-law exponent of the degree distribution of G. Also, we implemented and evaluated our algorithm empirically. Our algorithm outperforms the previous algorithm [BFK18] practically and theoretically. Beyond the hyperbolic random graphs, we have experiment on real-world networks. For most of instances, we get large cliques close to the optimum solutions efficiently

Feedback Vertex Set on Geometric Intersection Graphs

In this paper, we present an algorithm for computing a feedback vertex set of a unit disk graph of size k, if it exists, which runs in time 2^O(?k)(n+m), where n and m denote the numbers of vertices and edges, respectively. This improves the 2^O(?klog k) n^O(1)-time algorithm for this problem on unit disk graphs by Fomin et al. [ICALP 2017]. Moreover, our algorithm is optimal assuming the exponential-time hypothesis. Also, our algorithm can be extended to handle geometric intersection graphs of similarly sized fat objects without increasing the running time

Dynamic Geodesic Convex Hulls in Dynamic Simple Polygons

We consider the geodesic convex hulls of points in a simple polygonal region in the presence of non-crossing line segments (barriers) that subdivide the region into simply connected faces. We present an algorithm together with data structures for maintaining the geodesic convex hull of points in each face in a sublinear update time under the fully-dynamic setting where both input points and barriers change by insertions and deletions. The algorithm processes a mixed update sequence of insertions and deletions of points and barriers. Each update takes O(n^2/3 log^2 n) time with high probability, where n is the total number of the points and barriers at the moment. Our data structures support basic queries on the geodesic convex hull, each of which takes O(polylog n) time. In addition, we present an algorithm together with data structures for geodesic triangle counting queries under the fully-dynamic setting. With high probability, each update takes O(n^2/3 log n) time, and each query takes O(n^2/3 log n) time

Point Location in Dynamic Planar Subdivisions

We study the point location problem on dynamic planar subdivisions that allows insertions and deletions of edges. In our problem, the underlying graph of a subdivision is not necessarily connected. We present a data structure of linear size for such a dynamic planar subdivision that supports sublinear-time update and polylogarithmic-time query. Precisely, the amortized update time is O(sqrt{n}log n(log log n)^{3/2}) and the query time is O(log n(log log n)^2), where n is the number of edges in the subdivision. This answers a question posed by Snoeyink in the Handbook of Computational Geometry. When only deletions of edges are allowed, the update time and query time are just O(alpha(n)) and O(log n), respectively

A New Balanced Subdivision of a Simple Polygon for Time-Space Trade-off Algorithms

We are given a read-only memory for input and a write-only stream for output. For a positive integer parameter s, an s-workspace algorithm is an algorithm using only O(s) words of workspace in addition to the memory for input. In this paper, we present an O(n^2/s)-time s-workspace algorithm for subdividing a simple polygon into O(min{n/s,s}) subpolygons of complexity O(max{n/s,s}). As applications of the subdivision, the previously best known time-space trade-offs for the following three geometric problems are improved immediately: (1) computing the shortest path between two points inside a simple n-gon, (2) computing the shortest path tree from a point inside a simple n-gon, (3) computing a triangulation of a simple n-gon. In addition, we improve the algorithm for the second problem even further