New constructions of weak epsilon-nets
New constructions of weak epsilon-nets
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弱epsilon网的新构造
DOI:
10.1145/777792.777813
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发表时间:
2003
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通讯作者:
J. Matoušek
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作者:
J. Matoušek
A finite set ? ? R<sup>d</sup> is a <i>weak e-net</i> for an <i>n</i> -point set <i>X</i> ? <b>R</b> <sup> <i>d</i> </sup> (with respect to convex sets) if <i>N</i> intersects every convex set <i>K</i> with | <i>K</i> n <i>X</i> |= en. We give an alternative, and arguably simpler, proof of the fact, first shown by Chazelle et al. [7], that every point set <i>X</i> in <b>R</b> <sup> <i>d</i> </sup> admits a weak e-net of cardinality <i>O</i> (e <sup> <i>-d</i> </sup> polylog(1/e)). Moreover, for a number of special point sets (e.g., for points on the moment curve), our method gives substantially better bounds. The construction yields an algorithm to construct such weak eps-nets in time <i>O</i> ( <i>n</i> ln(1e)). We also prove, by a different method, a near-linear upper bound for points uniformly distributed on the (d--1)-dimensional sphere.