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Non-Crossing Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles in Output-Polynomial Time

Author David Eppstein

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David Eppstein
  • Computer Science Department, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

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  • Eppstein, David: Research supported in part by NSF grant CCF-2212129.

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David Eppstein. Non-Crossing Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles in Output-Polynomial Time. In 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 258, pp. 29:1-29:16, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.29

Abstract

We show that, for planar point sets, the number of non-crossing Hamiltonian paths is polynomially bounded in the number of non-crossing paths, and the number of non-crossing Hamiltonian cycles (polygonalizations) is polynomially bounded in the number of surrounding cycles. As a consequence, we can list the non-crossing Hamiltonian paths or the polygonalizations, in time polynomial in the output size, by filtering the output of simple backtracking algorithms for non-crossing paths or surrounding cycles respectively. To prove these results we relate the numbers of non-crossing structures to two easily-computed parameters of the point set: the minimum number of points whose removal results in a collinear set, and the number of points interior to the convex hull. These relations also lead to polynomial-time approximation algorithms for the numbers of structures of all four types, accurate to within a constant factor of the logarithm of these numbers.

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • polygonalization
  • non-crossing structures
  • output-sensitive algorithms

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