The complexity of the generalized Lloyd - Max problem (Corresp.)

  • Authors:
  • M. Garey;D. Johnson;H. Witsenhausen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A simple (combinatorial) special case of the generalized Lloyd-Max (or quantization) problem is shown to be nondeterministic polynomial (NP)-complete. {em A fortiori}, the general problem of communication theory, in its combinatorial forms, has at least that complexity.