Planar earthmover is not in L1

Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 655-664

  Naor, Assaf ^a   Schechtman, Gideon ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; TRANSPORTATION;

PLANAR EARTHMOVER; TRANSPORTATION COST;

EARTHMOVING MACHINERY;

EID: 38749142921     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOCS.2006.60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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