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Finding Points in General Position

Computational Geometry 2017-06-07 v3

Abstract

We study computational aspects of the General Position Subset Selection problem defined as follows: Given a set of points in the plane, find a maximum-cardinality subset of points in general position. We prove that General Position Subset Selection is NP-hard, APX-hard, and give several fixed-parameter tractability results as well as a subexponential running time lower bound based on the Exponential Time Hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01097,
  title  = {Finding Points in General Position},
  author = {Vincent Froese and Iyad Kanj and André Nichterlein and Rolf Niedermeier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01097},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages, improved problem kernel wrt. dual parameter h, added a figure

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