The limit of L_p Voronoi diagrams as p \rightarrow 0 is the bounding-box-area Voronoi diagram

arXiv2207.07377MaRDI QIDQ6405064FDOQ6405064

Authors: Herman Haverkort, Rolf Klein 

Publication date: 15 July 2022

Abstract: We consider the Voronoi diagram of points in the real plane when the distance between two points $a$ and $b$ is given by $L_p(a-b)$ where $L_p((x,y))=(|x{|}^p+|y{|}^p{)}^{1/p}.$ We prove that the Voronoi diagram has a limit as $p$ converges to zero from above or from below: it is the diagram that corresponds to the distance function $L_{\ast }((x,y))=|xy|$. In this diagram, the bisector of two points in general position consists of a line and two branches of a hyperbola that split the plane into three faces per point. We propose to name $L_{\ast }$ as defined above the "geometric $L_0$ distance".

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