Paper by Erik D. Demaine
- Reference:
- Man-Kwun Chiu, Erik D. Demaine, Jenny Diomidova, David Eppstein, Robert A. Hearn, Adam Hesterberg, Matias Korman, Irene Parada, and Mikhail Rudoy, “New Results in Sona Drawing: Hardness and TSP Separation”, in Proceedings of the 32nd Canadian Conference in Computational Geometry (CCCG 2020), Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, August 5–7, 2020.
- Abstract:
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Given a set of point sites, a sona drawing is a single closed curve, disjoint
from the sites and intersecting itself only in simple crossings, so that each
bounded region of its complement contains exactly one of the sites. We prove
that it is NP-hard to find a minimum-length sona drawing for n given
points, and that such a curve can be longer than the TSP tour of the same
points by a factor > 1.5487875. When restricted to tours that lie on
the edges of a square grid, with points in the grid cells, we prove that it is
NP-hard even to decide whether such a tour exists. These results answer
questions posed at CCCG 2006.
- Comments:
- David Eppstein's presentation is available on YouTube.
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