The "Game about Squares" is NP-hard

نویسنده

  • Jens Maßberg
چکیده

In the “Game about Squares” the task is to push unit squares on an integer lattice onto corresponding dots. A square can only be moved into one given direction. When a square is pushed onto a lattice point with an arrow the direction of the square adopts the direction of the arrow. Moreover, squares can push other squares. In this paper we study the decision problem, whether all squares can be moved onto their corresponding dots by a finite number of pushes. We prove that this problem is NP-hard.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1408.3645  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014