The three-color and two-color Tantrix? rotation puzzle problems are NP-complete via parsimonious reductions |
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Authors: | Dorothea Baumeister Jörg Rothe |
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Affiliation: | Institut für Informatik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitatsstrasse 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany;European Research Council (ERC) Executive Agency, European Commission, 16 Place Rogier/Rogierplein, 1210 Brussels, Belgium;Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Rovira i Virgili University, Av. Catalunya 35, 43003 Tarragona, Spain |
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Abstract: | Holzer and Holzer M. Holzer, W. Holzer, Tantrix? rotation puzzles are intractable, Discrete Applied Mathematics 144(3) (2004) 345–358] proved that the Tantrix? rotation puzzle problem with four colors is NP-complete, and they showed that the infinite variant of this problem is undecidable. In this paper, we study the three-color and two-color Tantrix? rotation puzzle problems (3-TRP and 2-TRP) and their variants. Restricting the number of allowed colors to three (respectively, to two) reduces the set of available Tantrix? tiles from 56 to 14 (respectively, to 8). We prove that 3-TRP and 2-TRP are NP-complete, which answers a question raised by Holzer and Holzer M. Holzer, W. Holzer, Tantrix? rotation puzzles are intractable, Discrete Applied Mathematics 144(3) (2004) 345–358] in the affirmative. Since our reductions are parsimonious, it follows that the problems Unique-3-TRP and Unique-2-TRP are DP-complete under randomized reductions. We also show that the another-solution problems associated with 4-TRP, 3-TRP, and 2-TRP are NP-complete. Finally, we prove that the infinite variants of 3-TRP and 2-TRP are undecidable. |
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