TY - JOUR
T1 - The layer number of α-evenly distributed point sets
AU - Choi, Ilkyoo
AU - Joo, Weonyoung
AU - Kim, Minki
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2018R1D1A1B07043049), and also by the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea Research Fund.Partially supported by ISF, Israel Grant No. 2023464 and BSF, Israel Grant No. 2006099.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - For a finite point set in Rd, we consider a peeling process where the vertices of the convex hull are removed at each step. The layer number L(X) of a given point set X is defined as the number of steps of the peeling process in order to delete all points in X. It is known that if X is a set of random points in Rd, then the expectation of L(X) is Θ(|X|2∕(d+1)), and recently it was shown that if X is a point set of the square grid on the plane, then L(X)=Θ(|X|2∕3). In this paper, we investigate the layer number of α-evenly distributed point sets for α>1; these point sets share the regularity aspect of random point sets but in a more general setting. The set of lattice points is also an α-evenly distributed point set for some α>1. We find an upper bound of O(|X|3∕4) for the layer number of an α-evenly distributed point set X in a unit disk on the plane for some α>1, and provide an explicit construction that shows the growth rate of this upper bound cannot be improved. In addition, we give an upper bound of O(|X|[Formula presented]) for the layer number of an α-evenly distributed point set X in a unit ball in Rd for some α>1 and d≥3.
AB - For a finite point set in Rd, we consider a peeling process where the vertices of the convex hull are removed at each step. The layer number L(X) of a given point set X is defined as the number of steps of the peeling process in order to delete all points in X. It is known that if X is a set of random points in Rd, then the expectation of L(X) is Θ(|X|2∕(d+1)), and recently it was shown that if X is a point set of the square grid on the plane, then L(X)=Θ(|X|2∕3). In this paper, we investigate the layer number of α-evenly distributed point sets for α>1; these point sets share the regularity aspect of random point sets but in a more general setting. The set of lattice points is also an α-evenly distributed point set for some α>1. We find an upper bound of O(|X|3∕4) for the layer number of an α-evenly distributed point set X in a unit disk on the plane for some α>1, and provide an explicit construction that shows the growth rate of this upper bound cannot be improved. In addition, we give an upper bound of O(|X|[Formula presented]) for the layer number of an α-evenly distributed point set X in a unit ball in Rd for some α>1 and d≥3.
KW - Convex layer
KW - Evenly-distributed point set
KW - Peeling sequence
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U2 - 10.1016/j.disc.2020.112029
DO - 10.1016/j.disc.2020.112029
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086570371
VL - 343
JO - Discrete Mathematics
JF - Discrete Mathematics
SN - 0012-365X
IS - 10
M1 - 112029
ER -