• 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