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4/3 Rectangle Tiling lower bound

Data Structures and Algorithms 2017-03-07 v1

Abstract

The problem that we consider is the following: given an n×nn \times n array AA of positive numbers, find a tiling using at most pp rectangles (which means that each array element must be covered by some rectangle and no two rectangles must overlap) that minimizes the maximum weight of any rectangle (the weight of a rectangle is the sum of elements which are covered by it). We prove that it is NP-hard to approximate this problem to within a factor of \textbf{113\frac{1}{3}} (the previous best result was 1141\frac{1}{4}).

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@article{arxiv.1703.01475,
  title  = {4/3 Rectangle Tiling lower bound},
  author = {Grzegorz Głuch and Krzysztof Loryś},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01475},
  year   = {2017}
}