Affiliation: | a Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Kogakuin University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-8677, Japan b Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Ibaraki University, Hitachi, 316-8511, Japan |
Abstract: | We prove the following theorem. Let m≥2 and q≥1 be integers and let S and T be two disjoint sets of points in the plane such that no three points of ST are on the same line, |S|=2q and |T|=mq. Then ST can be partitioned into q disjoint subsets P1,P2,…,Pq satisfying the following two conditions: (i) conv(Pi)∩conv(Pj)=φ for all 1≤i<j≤q, where conv(Pi) denotes the convex hull of Pi; and (ii) |Pi∩S|=2 and |Pi∩T|=m for all 1≤i≤q. |