Reconfiguring Simple st Hamiltonian Paths in Rectangular Grid Graphs

RI Nishat, V Srinivasan, S Whitesides - International Workshop on …, 2021 - Springer
International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, 2021Springer
We study the following reconfiguration problem: given two s, t Hamiltonian paths connecting
diagonally opposite corners s and t of a rectangular grid graph G, can we transform one to
the other using only local operations in the grid cells? In this work, we introduce the notion of
simple s, t Hamiltonian paths, and give an algorithm to reconfigure such paths of G in O (| G|)
time using local operations in unit grid cells. We achieve our algorithmic result by proving a
combinatorial structure theorem for simple s, t Hamiltonian paths in rectangular grid graphs.
Abstract
We study the following reconfiguration problem: given two st Hamiltonian paths connecting diagonally opposite corners s and t of a rectangular grid graph G, can we transform one to the other using only local operations in the grid cells? In this work, we introduce the notion of simplest Hamiltonian paths, and give an algorithm to reconfigure such paths of G in O(|G|) time using local operations in unit grid cells. We achieve our algorithmic result by proving a combinatorial structure theorem for simple st Hamiltonian paths in rectangular grid graphs.
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