Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica
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Volume 50: Issue 4
Shortest path avoiding balls
Author: Gábor Tóth 1
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  • 1 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics 13-15 Reáltanoda u. 1053 Budapest Hungary
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/sscmath.50.2013.4.1254
Page Count:
454–464
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2013
Online Publication Date:
30 Dec 2013
Article Category:
Research Article
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It is shown that in a packing of open circular discs with radii not exceeding 1, any two points lying outside the circles at distance d from one another can be connected by a path traveling outside the circles and having length at most

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. Given a packing of open balls with bounded radii in En and two points outside the balls at distance d from one another, the length of the shortest path connecting the two points and avoiding the balls is d + O(d/n) as d and n approaches infinity.

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Keywords:
Primary 52C17; Secondary 68U05; Packing; covering; shortest path

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