The two guards problem
- 1 January 1991
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Vol. 2 (3) , 166-175
- https://doi.org/10.1145/109648.109667
Abstract
Given a simple polygon in the plane with two distinguished vertices, s and g ,i s it possible for two guards to simultaneously walk along the two boundary chains from s to g in such a way that they are always mutually visible? We decide this question in time O(n logn) and in linear space, where n is the number of edges of the polygon. Moreover, we compute a walk of minimum length within time O(n logn +k), where k is the size of the output, and we prove that this is optimal.Keywords
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