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Lower bounds for approximate polygon decomposition and minimum gap

Gudmundsson, J ; Husfeldt, Thore LU and Levcopoulos, Christos LU orcid (2002) In Information Processing Letters 81(3). p.137-141
Abstract
We consider the problem of decomposing polygons (with holes) into various types of simpler polygons. We focus on the problem of partitioning a rectilinear polygon, with holes, into rectangles, and show an Omega (n log n) lower bound on the time-complexity. The result holds for any decomposition, optimal or approximative. The bound matches the complexity of a number of algorithms in the literature, proving their optimality and settling the complexity of approximate polygon decomposition in these cases. As a related result we show that any non-trivial approximation algorithm for the minimum gap problem requires Omega (n log n) time. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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trees, minimum gap, lower bounds, algebraic decision, polygon decomposition, computational geometry
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Information Processing Letters
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81
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137 - 141
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Elsevier
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0020-0190
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10.1016/S0020-0190(01)00203-4
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English
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  author       = {{Gudmundsson, J and Husfeldt, Thore and Levcopoulos, Christos}},
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  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Information Processing Letters}},
  title        = {{Lower bounds for approximate polygon decomposition and minimum gap}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0190(01)00203-4}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/S0020-0190(01)00203-4}},
  volume       = {{81}},
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