On Line-Separable Weighted Unit-Disk Coverage and Related Problems
<|reference_start|>On Line-Separable Weighted Unit-Disk Coverage and Related Problems: Given a set $P$ of $n$ points and a set $S$ of $n$ weighted disks in the plane, the disk coverage problem is to compute a subset of disks of smallest total weight such that the union of the disks in the subset covers all points of $P$. The problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we consider a line-separable unit-disk version of the problem where all disks have the same radius and their centers are separated from the points of $P$ by a line $\ell$. We present an $O(n^{3/2}\log^2 n)$ time algorithm for the problem. This improves the previously best work of $O(n^2\log n)$ time. Our result leads to an algorithm of $O(n^{{7}/{2}}\log^2 n)$ time for the halfplane coverage problem (i.e., using $n$ weighted halfplanes to cover $n$ points), an improvement over the previous $O(n^4\log n)$ time solution. If all halfplanes are lower ones, our algorithm runs in $O(n^{{3}/{2}}\log^2 n)$ time, while the previous best algorithm takes $O(n^2\log n)$ time. Using duality, the hitting set problems under the same settings can be solved with similar time complexities.<|reference_end|>
@article{liu2024on,
    title={On Line-Separable Weighted Unit-Disk Coverage and Related Problems},
    author={Gang Liu, Haitao Wang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00329},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.00329},
    primaryClass={cs.CG cs.DS}
}