2012/04/20 by Löffler, Maarten, Simons, Joe, Strash, Darren
#Computational Geometry (cs.CG) #Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1204.4714
We study planar point location in a collection of disjoint fat regions, and investigate the complexity of \emph local updates: replacing any region by a different region that is "similar" to the original region. (i.e., the size differs by at most a constant factor, and distance between the two regions is a constant times that size). We show that it is possible to create a linear size data structure that allows for insertions, deletions, and queries in logarithmic time, and allows for local updates in sub-logarithmic time on a pointer machine.