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The Complexity of MaxMin Length Triangulation

Computational Geometry 2012-08-02 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

In 1991, Edelsbrunner and Tan gave an O(n^2) algorithm for finding the MinMax Length triangulation of a set of points in the plane. In this paper we resolve one of the open problems stated in that paper, by showing that finding a MaxMin Length triangulation is an NP-complete problem. The proof implies that (unless P=NP), there is no polynomial-time approximation algorithm that can approximate the problem within any polynomial factor.

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@article{arxiv.1208.0202,
  title  = {The Complexity of MaxMin Length Triangulation},
  author = {Sándor P. Fekete},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0202},
  year   = {2012}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures

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