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Augmenting a Geometric Matching is NP-complete

2012/06/27 by Tillmann Miltzow, Miltzow, Tillmann
Computer Science · Engineering · #3D Shape Modeling and Analysis #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #Data Management and Algorithms #cs.CC #cs.CG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1206.6360

arxiv created 2012/06/27 · arxiv updated 2012/06/28

Abstract

Given 2n points in the plane, it is well-known that there always exists a perfect straight-line non-crossing matching. We show that it is NP-complete to decide if a partial matching can be augmented to a perfect one, via a reduction from 1-in-3-SAT. This result also holds for bichromatic matchings.

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