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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.421
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50970
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5097/
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Hoffmann, Frank ; Kriegel, Klaus ; Suri, Subhash ; Verbeek, Kevin ; Willert, Max

Tight Bounds for Conflict-Free Chromatic Guarding of Orthogonal Art Galleries

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Abstract

The chromatic art gallery problem asks for the minimum number of "colors" t so that a collection of point guards, each assigned one of the t colors, can see the entire polygon subject to some conditions on the colors visible to each point. In this paper, we explore this problem for orthogonal polygons using orthogonal visibility - two points p and q are mutually visible if the smallest axis-aligned rectangle containing them lies within the polygon. Our main result establishes that for a conflict-free guarding of an orthogonal n-gon, in which at least one of the colors seen by every point is unique, the number of colors is Theta(loglog n). By contrast, the best upper bound for orthogonal polygons under standard (non-orthogonal) visibility is O(log n) colors. We also show that the number of colors needed for strong guarding of simple orthogonal polygons, where all the colors visible to a point are unique, is Theta(log n). Finally, our techniques also help us establish the first non-trivial lower bound of Omega(loglog n / logloglog n) for conflict-free guarding under standard visibility. To this end we introduce and utilize a novel discrete combinatorial structure called multicolor tableau.

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@InProceedings{hoffmann_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5097,
  author =	{Frank Hoffmann and Klaus Kriegel and Subhash Suri and Kevin Verbeek and Max Willert},
  title =	{{Tight Bounds for Conflict-Free Chromatic Guarding of Orthogonal Art Galleries}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)},
  pages =	{421--435},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-83-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{34},
  editor =	{Lars Arge and J{\'a}nos Pach},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5097},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50970},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.421},
  annote =	{Keywords: Orthogonal polygons, art gallery problem, hypergraph coloring}
}

Keywords: Orthogonal polygons, art gallery problem, hypergraph coloring
Collection: 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 12.06.2015

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