TY - GEN
T1 - ON MINIMA OF FUNCTIONS, INTERSECTION PATTERNS OF CURVES, AND DAVENPORT-SCHINZEL SEQUENCES.
AU - Sharir, Micha
AU - Livne, Ron
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - Several results are presented related to the problem of estimating the complexity M(f//1,. . . , f//N) of the pointwise minimum of n continuous univariate or bivariate functions f//1,. . . , f//N under the assumption that no pair (or triple) of these functions intersect in more than some fixed number s of points. The main result is that in the one-dimensional case M(f//I,. . . , f//N) is the functional inverse of Ackermann's function). In the two-dimensional case, the problem is substantially harder, and the authors have only some initial estimates on M. The treatment of the two-dimensional problem is based on certain properties of the intersection patterns of a collection of planar Jordan curves.
AB - Several results are presented related to the problem of estimating the complexity M(f//1,. . . , f//N) of the pointwise minimum of n continuous univariate or bivariate functions f//1,. . . , f//N under the assumption that no pair (or triple) of these functions intersect in more than some fixed number s of points. The main result is that in the one-dimensional case M(f//I,. . . , f//N) is the functional inverse of Ackermann's function). In the two-dimensional case, the problem is substantially harder, and the authors have only some initial estimates on M. The treatment of the two-dimensional problem is based on certain properties of the intersection patterns of a collection of planar Jordan curves.
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AN - SCOPUS:0022181922
SN - 0818606444
T3 - Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Proceedings)
SP - 312
EP - 320
BT - Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Proceedings)
PB - IEEE
ER -