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Triangulations (tilings) and certain block triangular matrices

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5590921
The problem is to find a tiling (triangularization) of a convex n polytope (or combinatorially an n-gon) such that the partition uses the minimum number of tiles. We show that a certain linear program can be formulated whose optimal solution is always in integers and corresponds to a tiling. Moreover the system is in the form of a block-triangular Leontief-Substitution System that is readily solved by a O(n/sup 3/) algorithm consisting of a single forward and backward pass through data.
Research Organization:
Stanford Univ., CA (USA). Dept. of Operations Research
DOE Contract Number:
AT03-76ER72018
OSTI ID:
5590921
Report Number(s):
SOL-83-17; ON: DE84003579
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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