APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM;
CONTINUED FRACTION EXPANSIONS;
HITTING SET PROBLEM;
NUMBER THEORY;
D O I:
10.1080/00207169208804057
中图分类号:
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号:
070104 ;
摘要:
We consider the following problem: Find a set of parallel straight lines with equal spacing to hit all m grid points in a closed region bounded by a convex polygon P with n vertices such that size of this set is minimal. We use continued fraction expansions to explore the combinatorial properties of this problem and propose an O(n + log m) approximation algorithm which guarantees finite performance ratio.