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Linking disjoint axis-parallel segments into a simple polygon is hard too

Computational Geometry 2021-09-07 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Deciding whether a family of disjoint axis-parallel line segments in the plane can be linked into a simple polygon (or a simple polygonal chain) by adding segments between their endpoints is NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.2109.02156,
  title  = {Linking disjoint axis-parallel segments into a simple polygon is hard too},
  author = {Rain Jiang and Kai Jiang and Minghui Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02156},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Strengthens the results in arXiv:2108.12812

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