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APX-Hardness of the Minimum Vision Points Problem

Computational Geometry 2022-07-12 v1

Abstract

Placing a minimum number of guards on a given watchman route in a polygonal domain is called the {\em minimum vision points problem}. We prove that finding the minimum number of vision points on a shortest watchman route in a simple polygon is APX-Hard. We then extend the proof to the class of rectilinear polygons having at most three dent orientations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2207.04488,
  title  = {APX-Hardness of the Minimum Vision Points Problem},
  author = {Mayank Chaturvedi and Bengt J. Nilsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04488},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 figures. A preliminary version was presented at the 38th European Workshop on Computational Geometry EuroCG 2022

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