Sparse Bounded Hop-Spanners for Geometric Intersection Graphs

Sujoy Bhore, Timothy M. Chan, Zhengcheng Huang, Shakhar Smorodinsky, Csaba D. Tóth

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Abstract

We present new results on 2- and 3-hop spanners for geometric intersection graphs. These include improved upper and lower bounds for 2- and 3-hop spanners for many geometric intersection graphs in Rd. For example, we show that the intersection graph of n balls in Rd admits a 2-hop spanner of size O∗ (n3/2 - 1/2(2⌈d/2⌉+1)) and the intersection graph of n fat axis-parallel boxes in Rd admits a 2-hop spanner of size O(n logd+1 n). Furthermore, we show that the intersection graph of general semi-algebraic objects in Rd admits a 3-hop spanner of size O∗ (n3/2 - 1/2(2D-1)), where D is a parameter associated with the description complexity of the objects. For such families (or more specifically, for tetrahedra in R3), we provide a lower bound of Ω(n 4/3). For 3-hop and axis-parallel boxes in Rd, we provide the upper bound O(n logd-1 n) and lower bound Ω (n(log n/log log n)d-2).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry, SoCG 2025
EditorsOswin Aichholzer, Haitao Wang
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN (Electronic)9783959773706
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Jun 2025
Event41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry, SoCG 2025 - Kanazawa, Japan
Duration: 23 Jun 202527 Jun 2025

Publication series

NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume332
ISSN (Print)1868-8969

Conference

Conference41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry, SoCG 2025
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKanazawa
Period23/06/2527/06/25

Keywords

  • Geometric Intersection Graphs
  • Geometric Spanners

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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