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NP-Hardness of Rotation Type Cell-Mazes
Shiro AOKI Hiro ITO Hideyuki UEHARA Mitsuo YOKOYAMA Tsuyoshi HORINOUCHI
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Vol.E83-A
No.3
pp.492-496 Publication Date: 2000/03/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section of Selected Papers from the 12th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa) Category: Keyword: puzzle, maze, computational complexity, NP-hard, polynomial-time,
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Summary:
In this paper, a puzzle called Cell-Maze is analyzed. In this puzzle, cells are arranged in checker board squares. Each cell is rotated when a player arrives at the cell. Cell-Maze asks whether or not a player started from a start cell can reach a goal cell. The reachability problem for ordinary graphs can be easily solved in linear time, however a reachability problem for the network such as Cell-Maze may be extremely difficult. In this paper, NP-hardness of this puzzle is proved. It is proved by reducing Hamiltonian Circuit Problem of directed planar graph G such that each vertex involved in just three arcs. Furthermore, we consider subproblems, which can be solved in polynomial time.
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