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On Vertex Guarding Staircase Polygons

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In this paper, we consider the variant of the art gallery problem where the input polygon is a staircase polygon. Previous works on this problem gave a 2-approximation for point guarding a staircase polygon (where guards can be placed anywhere in the interior of the polygon and we wish to guard the entire polygon). It is still unknown whether this point guarding variant is NP-hard. In this paper we consider the vertex guarding problem, where guards are only allowed to be placed at the vertices of the polygon, and we wish to guard only the vertices of the polygon. We show that this problem is NP-hard, and we give a polynomial-time 2-approximation algorithm.

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Gibson-Lopez, M., Krohn, E., Nilsson, B.J., Rayford, M., Soderman, S., Żyliński, P. (2022). On Vertex Guarding Staircase Polygons. In: Castañeda, A., Rodríguez-Henríquez, F. (eds) LATIN 2022: Theoretical Informatics. LATIN 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13568. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20624-5_45

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