Minimizing the Total Movement for Movement to Independence Problem on a Line

Given a positive real value δ, a set P of points along a line and a distance function d, in the movement to independence problem, we wish to move the points to new positions on the line such that for every two points pi, pj ∈ P , we have d(pi, pj) ≥ δ while minimizing the sum of movements of all points. This measure of the cost for moving the points was previously unsolved in this setting. However for different cost measures there are algorithms of O(n log(n)) or of O(n). We present an O(n log(n)) algorithm for the points on a line and thus conclude the setting in one dimension.