Tiling simply connected regions with rectangles
Combinatorics
2013-05-14 v1 Computational Complexity
Computational Geometry
Abstract
In [BNRR], it was shown that tiling of general regions with two rectangles is NP-complete, except for a few trivial special cases. In a different direction, R\'emila showed that for simply connected regions by two rectangles, the tileability can be solved in quadratic time (in the area). We prove that there is a finite set of at most 10^6 rectangles for which the tileability problem of simply connected regions is NP-complete, closing the gap between positive and negative results in the field. We also prove that counting such rectangular tilings is #P-complete, a first result of this kind.
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@article{arxiv.1305.2796,
title = {Tiling simply connected regions with rectangles},
author = {Igor Pak and Jed Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2796},
year = {2013}
}
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18 pages, 13 figures