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Analysis of backtrack algorithms for listing all vertices and all faces of a convex polyhedron

Fukuda, Komei  
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Liebling, Thomas M.  
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Margot, François
1997
Computational Geometry

In this paper, we investigate the applicability of backtrack technique to solve the vertex enumeration problem and the face enumeration problem for a convex polyhedron given by a system of linear inequalities. We show that there is a linear-time backtrack algorithm for the face enumeration problem whose space complexity is polynomial in the input size, but the vertex enumeration problem requires a backtrack algorithm to solve a decision problem, called the restricted vertex problem, for each output, which is shown to be NP-complete. Some related NP-complete problems associated with a system of linear inequalities are also discussed, including the optimal vertex problems for polyhedra and arrangements of hyperplanes.

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DOI
10.1016/0925-7721(95)00049-6
Author(s)
Fukuda, Komei  
Liebling, Thomas M.  
Margot, François
Date Issued

1997

Published in
Computational Geometry
Issue

8

Start page

1

End page

12

Note

PRO 1997.03; PRO 96.01

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REVIEWED

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ROSO  
Available on Infoscience
February 13, 2006
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