The Two-Guard Polygon Walk Problem

  • Authors:
  • John Z. Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada T1K 3M4

  • Venue:
  • TAMC '09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Consider a simple polygon. A walk is conducted by two guards on the polygon boundary. They start at a boundary point and walk on the boundary. It is required that the two guards maintain their mutual visibility at all times and eventually meet together again. A polygon may or may not be walkable, depending on where the two guards start their walk or no matter where they start on the boundary. In this work, we characterize the class of walkable polygons by two guards by presenting a set of forbidden patterns.