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Compatible Triangulations of Simple Polygons

Computational Geometry 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

Let PP and QQ be simple polygons with nn vertices each. We wish to compute triangulations of PP and QQ that are combinatorially equivalent, if they exist. We consider two versions of the problem: if a triangulation of PP is given, we can decide in O(nlogn+nr)O(n\log n + nr) time if QQ has a compatible triangulation, where rr is the number of reflex vertices of QQ. If we are already given the correspondence between vertices of PP and QQ (but no triangulation), we can find compatible triangulations of PP and QQ in time O(M(n))O(M(n)), where M(n)M(n) is the running time for multiplying two n×nn\times n matrices.

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@article{arxiv.2603.01282,
  title  = {Compatible Triangulations of Simple Polygons},
  author = {Peyman Afshani and Boris Aronov and Kevin Buchin and Maike Buchin and Otfried Cheong and Katharina Klost and Carolin Rehs and Günter Rote},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01282},
  year   = {2026}
}
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