Counting Blanks in Polygonal Arrangements

DOI10.1137/16M110407XMaRDI QIDQ4585744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Arseniy Akopyan, Erel Segal-Halevi

Publication date 7 September 2018

Published in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00960

zbMATH Keywords

packing and coveringcake-cuttingrectilinear polygonsconvex objectsredivision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Abstract: Inside a two dimensional region ("cake"), there are $m$ non-overlapping tiles of a certain kind ("toppings"). We want to expand the toppings while keeping them non-overlapping, and possibly add some blank pieces of the same "certain kind", such that the entire cake is covered. How many blanks must we add? We study this question in several cases: (1) The cake and toppings are general polygons. (2) The cake and toppings are convex figures. (3) The cake and toppings are axes-parallel rectangles. (4) The cake is an axes-parallel rectilinear polygon and the toppings are axes-parallel rectangles. In all four cases, we provide tight bounds on the number of blanks.

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