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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}
}

Comments

18 pages, 13 figures

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