I am looking for an algorithm to solve the following problem: Given is a orderd set of 2D points in carthesian space: $ P = \{p_{i} \in \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}\}$, $|P| = n$ and a distance function $ dist(p_{k}, p_{j}) : \mathbb{R}^{2} \times \mathbb{R}^{2} \to \mathbb{R} $ $ dist(p_{k}...