Spanners under the Hausdorff and Fr\'echet Distances

Abstract

We initiate the study of spanners under the Hausdorff and Fr\'echet distances. We show that any $t$-spanner of a planar point-set $S$ is a $\frac{\sqrt{t^2-1}}{2}$-Hausdorff-spanner and a $\min\{\frac{t}{2},\frac{\sqrt{t^2-t}}{\sqrt{2}}\}$-Fr\'echet spanner. We also prove that for any $t > 1$, there exist a set of points $S$ and an $\varepsilon_1$-Hausdorff-spanner of $S$ and an $\varepsilon_2$-Fr\'echet-spanner of $S$, where $\varepsilon_1$ and $\varepsilon_2$ are constants, such that neither of them is a $t$-spanner.