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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.36
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169741
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16974/
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Chen, Jiehua ; Roy, Sanjukta

Multi-Dimensional Stable Roommates in 2-Dimensional Euclidean Space

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Abstract

We investigate the Euclidean ?-Dimensional Stable Roommates problem, which asks whether a given set V of ?⋅ n points from the 2-dimensional Euclidean space can be partitioned into n disjoint (unordered) subsets Π = {V₁,…,V_{n}} with |V_i| = ? for each V_i ∈ Π such that Π is {stable}. Here, {stability} means that no point subset W ⊆ V is blocking Π, and W is said to be {blocking} Π if |W| = ? such that ∑_{w' ∈ W}δ(w,w') < ∑_{v ∈ Π(w)}δ(w,v) holds for each point w ∈ W, where Π(w) denotes the subset V_i ∈ Π which contains w and δ(a,b) denotes the Euclidean distance between points a and b. Complementing the existing known polynomial-time result for ? = 2, we show that such polynomial-time algorithms cannot exist for any fixed number ? ≥ 3 unless P=NP. Our result for ? = 3 answers a decade-long open question in the theory of Stable Matching and Hedonic Games [Iwama et al., 2007; Arkin et al., 2009; Vladimir G. Deineko and Gerhard J. Woeginger, 2013; Vladimir G. Deineko and Gerhard J. Woeginger, 2013; David F. Manlove, 2013].

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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.36,
  author =	{Chen, Jiehua and Roy, Sanjukta},
  title =	{{Multi-Dimensional Stable Roommates in 2-Dimensional Euclidean Space}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{36:1--36:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-247-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{244},
  editor =	{Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16974},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169741},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.36},
  annote =	{Keywords: stable matchings, multidimensional stable roommates, Euclidean preferences, coalition formation games, stable cores, NP-hardness}
}

Keywords: stable matchings, multidimensional stable roommates, Euclidean preferences, coalition formation games, stable cores, NP-hardness
Collection: 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 01.09.2022

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