Title of article
Time complexity of two disjoint simple paths
Author/Authors
Razzazia, M. Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology - Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran , Sepahvand, A. Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology - Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran
Pages
9
From page
1335
To page
1343
Abstract
Finding two disjoint simple paths on two given sets of points is a
geometric problem introduced by Jeff Erickson. This problem has various applications in computational geometry, e.g. robot motion planning, generating polygon, etc. We will present a reduction from planar Hamiltonian path to this problem, and prove that it is NP-complete.
To the best of our knowledge, no study has considered its complexity up until now. We also present a reduction from planar Hamiltonian path problem to the problem of finding a path on given points in the presence of arbitrary obstacles" and prove that it is also NP-complete. Also, we present a heuristic algorithm with time complexity of O(n4)
to solve this problem. The proposed algorithm first calculates the convex hull for each of the entry points and then produces two simple paths on the two entry point sets.
Keywords
Simple path , Hamiltonian path , NP-complete , Planar graph
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2017
Record number
2461534
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