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arxiv: 1703.01475 · v1 · pith:IZZZF4SNnew · submitted 2017-03-04 · 💻 cs.DS

4/3 Rectangle Tiling lower bound

classification 💻 cs.DS
keywords rectanglearraycoveredfracmustproblemrectanglestiling
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The problem that we consider is the following: given an $n \times n$ array $A$ of positive numbers, find a tiling using at most $p$ rectangles (which means that each array element must be covered by some rectangle and no two rectangles must overlap) that minimizes the maximum weight of any rectangle (the weight of a rectangle is the sum of elements which are covered by it). We prove that it is NP-hard to approximate this problem to within a factor of \textbf{1$\frac{1}{3}$} (the previous best result was $1\frac{1}{4}$).

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