Computational complexity of combinatorial surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Gert Vegter;Chee K. Yap

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, University of Groningen, P.O.Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands;Fachbereich Mathematik, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee 2-6, 1000 Berlin 33 West Germany

  • Venue:
  • SCG '90 Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We investigate the computational problems associated with combinatorial surfaces. Specifically, we present an algorithm (based on the Brahana-Dehn-Heegaard approach) for transforming the polygonal schema of a closed triangulated surface into its canonical form in &Ogr;(n log n) time, where n is the total number of vertices, edges and faces. We also give an &Ogr;(n log n + gn) algorithm for constructing canonical generators of the fundamental group of a surface of genus g. This is useful in constructing homeomorphisms between combinatorial surfaces.