7 papers
The Balanced Up-Down Walk
Hugo A. Akitaya, Sarah Cannon, Gregory Herschlag +3
Markov chains based on spanning trees have been hugely influential in algorithms for assessing fairness in political redistricting. The input graph represents the geographic buildi…
Escaping a Polygon
Zachary Abel, Hugo Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine +4
Suppose an escaping player ("human") moves continuously at maximum speed in the interior of a region, while a pursuing player ("zombie") moves continuously at maximum speed …
Sliding Squares in Parallel
Hugo A. Akitaya, Sándor P. Fekete, Peter Kramer +4
We consider algorithmic problems motivated by modular robotic reconfiguration in the sliding square model, in which we are given square-shaped modules in a (labeled or unlabele…
Super Guarding and Dark Rays in Art Galleries
MIT CompGeom Group, Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine +5
We explore an Art Gallery variant where each point of a polygon must be seen by k guards, and guards cannot see through other guards. Surprisingly, even covering convex polygons un…
Undecidability of Tiling with a Tromino
ULB CompGeom Group, Zachary Abel, Hugo Akitaya +6
Given a periodic placement of copies of a tromino (either L or I), we prove co-RE-completeness (and hence undecidability) of deciding whether it can be completed to a plane tiling.…
Deltahedral Domes over Equiangular Polygons
MIT CompGeom Group, Hugo A. Akitaya, Erik D. Demaine +6
A polyiamond is a polygon composed of unit equilateral triangles, and a generalized deltahedron is a convex polyhedron whose every face is a convex polyiamond. We study a variant w…