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Embedding Ray Intersection Graphs and Global Curve Simplification

Computational Geometry 2021-09-02 v1

Abstract

We prove that circle graphs (intersection graphs of circle chords) can be embedded as intersection graphs of rays in the plane with polynomial-size bit complexity. We use this embedding to show that the global curve simplification problem for the directed Hausdorff distance is NP-hard. In this problem, we are given a polygonal curve PP and the goal is to find a second polygonal curve PP' such that the directed Hausdorff distance from PP' to PP is at most a given constant, and the complexity of PP' is as small as possible.

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@article{arxiv.2109.00042,
  title  = {Embedding Ray Intersection Graphs and Global Curve Simplification},
  author = {Mees van de Kerkhof and Irina Kostitsyna and Maarten Löffler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00042},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Appears in the Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2021)

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