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Unit Length Visibility Layers (UL VL)

Category: Logic

Input

A set of $n$ unit length, horizontal, nonintersecting line segments in the Euclidean plane, a designated segment $s$, and an integer $d$.

Problem

Is the label assigned to segment $s$ by the visibility layering process $d$?

Definitions

The visibility layering process is repeatedly to compute and delete the upper envelope of the remaining set of segments and label those segments with the current depth. The upper envelope consists of those segments visible from the point $(0, +\infty)$.

Status

Open (Atallah, Callahan, and Goodrich [1]).

Remarks

The problem is $\P$-complete if the restriction on unit lengths is removed [1]. See VL.

References

  1. M. J. Atallah, P. Callahan, and M. T. Goodrich (1990). P-complete geometric problems.
  2. Greenlaw, R., Hoover, H. J., and Ruzzo, W. L. (1995). Limits to Parallel Computation: P-Completeness Theory. Oxford University Press. Problem B.6.4.