Moving intervals for packing and covering
Abstract
We study several problems on geometric packing and covering with movement. Given a family $\mathcal{I}$ of $n$ intervals of $\kappa$ distinct lengths, and another interval $B$, can we pack the intervals in $\mathcal{I}$ inside $B$ (respectively, cover $B$ by the intervals in $\mathcal{I}$) by moving $\tau$ intervals and keeping the other $\sigma = n - \tau$ intervals unmoved? We show that both packing and covering are W[1]-hard with any one of $\kappa$, $\tau$, and $\sigma$ as single parameter, but are FPT with combined parameters $\kappa$ and $\tau$. We also obtain improved polynomial-time algorithms for packing and covering, including an $O(n\log^2 n)$ time algorithm for covering, when all intervals in $\mathcal{I}$ have the same length.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2021
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2109.00579
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv210900579J
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computational Geometry;
- Computer Science - Computational Complexity;
- Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms