Floodlight illumination of infinite wedges

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Cary;Atri Rudra;Ashish Sabharwal;Erik Vee

  • Affiliations:
  • Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA;Dept. of Computer Science and Engr., University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260-2000, USA;Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7501, USA;Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The floodlight illumination problem asks whether there exists a one-to-one placement of n floodlights illuminating infinite wedges of angles @a"1,...,@a"n at n sites p"1,...,p"n in a plane such that a given infinite wedge W of angle @q located at point q is completely illuminated by the floodlights. We prove that this problem is NP-hard, closing an open problem posed by Demaine and O'Rourke (CCCG 2001). In fact, we show that the problem is NP-complete even when @a"i=@a for all 1=