Unions of fat convex polytopes have short skeletons

Discrete and Computational Geometry

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-64

  Aronov, Boris ^a   de Berg, Mark ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Combinatorial complexity; Convex polytopes; Fat polytopes; Skeleton of union

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860887358     PISSN: 01795376     EISSN: 14320444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00454-012-9422-8     Document Type: Article

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