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).
(BibTeX -- SODA paper -- Citations -- DREI and SODA talk slides -- CiteSeer)
Publications -- David Eppstein -- Theory Group -- Inf. & Comp. Sci. -- UC Irvine
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