# Approximating Minimization Diagrams and Generalized Proximity Search

@inproceedings{HarPeled2013ApproximatingMD,
title={Approximating Minimization Diagrams and Generalized Proximity Search},
author={Sariel Har-Peled and Nirman Kumar},
booktitle={FOCS},
year={2013}
}
• Published in FOCS 2013
• Mathematics, Computer Science
We investigate the classes of functions whose minimization diagrams can be approximated efficiently in Red. We present a general framework and a data-structure that can be used to approximate the minimization diagram of such functions. The resulting data-structure has near linear size and can answer queries in logarithmic time. Applications include approximating the Voronoi diagram of (additively or multiplicatively) weighted points. Our technique also works for more general distance functions… Expand

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