Improving on a recent breakthrough of Sharir, we use data structures from "Dynamic three-dimensional linear programming" to find two circular disks of minimum radius covering a set of points in the Euclidean plane, in randomized expected time O(n log2 n).
(SODA paper – DREI and SODA talk slides)
Publications – David Eppstein – Theory Group – Inf. & Comp. Sci. – UC Irvine
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