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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Wadern/Saarbruecken, Germany, 2018

DOI: 10.4230/lipics.fun.2018.9

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On the exact complexity of polyomino packing

Journal article published in 2018 by Hans L. Bodlaender ORCID, Tom C. Van Der Zanden
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We show that the problem of deciding whether a collection of polyominoes, each fitting in a 2 x O(log n) rectangle, can be packed into a 3 x n box does not admit a 2^{o(n/log{n})}-time algorithm, unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis fails. We also give an algorithm that attains this lower bound, solving any instance of polyomino packing with total area n in 2^{O(n/log{n})} time. This establishes a tight bound on the complexity of Polyomino Packing, even in a very restricted case. In contrast, for a 2 x n box, we show that the problem can be solved in strongly subexponential time.