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We study three fundamental geometric optimization problems – independent set, piercing set, and dominating set – on sets of axis-parallel segments in the plane. We consider special cases in which the segments are either unit length or they are anchored on an inclined line (a line with slope \(-1\)). When the segments are anchored on both sides, we prove that all three problems are NP-complete (Throughout, we refer to NP-completeness of problems, as the decision versions of the NP-hard optimization problems we consider are all readily seen to be in NP.); NP-completeness was known for the corresponding problems with axis-parallel rectangles anchored on an inclined line (Correa et al. [4], Mudgal and Pandit [9], Pandit [10]). Further, we prove that the dominating set problem with unit segments in the plane is NP-complete. When the input segments are anchored on one side of the inclined line, there are polynomial-time algorithms for the independent set and piercing set problems.
Partially supported by the National Science Foundation (CCF-1526406), the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (project 2016116), and DARPA.
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Mitchell, J.S.B., Pandit, S. (2020). Packing and Covering with Segments. In: Rahman, M., Sadakane, K., Sung, WK. (eds) WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation. WALCOM 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12049. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39881-1_17
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