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A Note on Edge Guards in Art Galleries

Metric Geometry 2012-07-17 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

We examine the Art Gallery Problem with Edge Guards. We present a heuristic algorithm to arrange edge guards to guard only the inward side of the walls of any N-vertex simple polygonal gallery using at most roof (N/4) edge guards - a weakened version of Toussaint's conjecture on the number of edge guards that can guard an entire simple polygon. Our study indicates that solving this weaker problem could give a handle on the full problem.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5818,
  title  = {A Note on Edge Guards in Art Galleries},
  author = {R. Nandakumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5818},
  year   = {2012}
}

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6 pages

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