Minimal Length Curves That Are Not Embeddable in an Open Planar Set: The Problem of a Lost Swimmer with a Compass

DOI10.1137/0330038MaRDI QIDQ4016757zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Refael Hassin, Arie Tamir

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/0330038

zbMATH Keywords

computational geometryoptimal pathsplanar convex setssearch theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Search theory (90B40)

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