Inapproximability results for orthogonal rectangle packing problems with rotations

  • Authors:
  • Miroslav Chlebík;Janka Chlebíková

  • Affiliations:
  • MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany;Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia

  • Venue:
  • CIAC'06 Proceedings of the 6th Italian conference on Algorithms and Complexity
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recently Bansal and Sviridenko [4] proved that there is no asymptotic PTAS for 2-dimensional Orthogonal Rectangle Bin Packing without rotations allowed, unless $\text{\rm P}=\textrm{\rm NP}$. We show that similar approximation hardness results hold for several rectangle packing problems even if rotations by ninety degrees around the axes are allowed. Moreover, for some of these problems we provide explicit lower bounds on asymptotic approximation ratio of any polynomial time approximation algorithm.