Matching points with things

  • Authors:
  • Greg Aloupis;Jean Cardinal;Sébastien Collette;Erik D. Demaine;Martin L. Demaine;Muriel Dulieu;Ruy Fabila-Monroy;Vi Hart;Ferran Hurtado;Stefan Langerman;Maria Saumell;Carlos Seara;Perouz Taslakian

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;Polytechnic Institute of NYU;Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'10 Proceedings of the 9th Latin American conference on Theoretical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Given an ordered set of points and an ordered set of geometric objects in the plane, we are interested in finding a non-crossing matching between point-object pairs. We show that when the objects we match the points to are finite point sets, the problem is NP-complete in general, and polynomial when the objects are on a line or when their number is at most 2. When the objects are line segments, we show that the problem is NP-complete in general, and polynomial when the segments form a convex polygon or are all on a line. Finally, for objects that are straight lines, we show that the problem of finding a min-max non-crossing matching is NP-complete.