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Computing Minimum Tile Sets to Self-Assemble Colors Patterns

Computational Complexity 2014-04-14 v1

Abstract

Patterned self-assembly tile set synthesis (PATS) aims at finding a minimum tile set to uniquely self-assemble a given rectangular color pattern. For k1k \ge 1, kk-PATS is a variant of PATS that restricts input patterns to those with at most kk colors. We prove the {\bf NP}-hardness of 29-PATS, where the best known is that of 60-PATS.

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@article{arxiv.1404.2962,
  title  = {Computing Minimum Tile Sets to Self-Assemble Colors Patterns},
  author = {Aleck C. Johnsen and Ming-Yang Kao and Shinnosuke Seki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2962},
  year   = {2014}
}
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