{"title":"The Longest Path Problem in Odd-Sized O-Shaped Grid Graphs","authors":"Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi, A. Bagheri","doi":"10.1142/s0129054123500065","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"One of the well-known NP-hard optimization problems in graph theory is finding the longest path in a graph. This problem remains NP-hard for general grid graphs, and its complexity is open for grid graphs that have a limited number of holes. In this paper, we study this problem for odd-sized [Formula: see text]-shaped grid graphs, i.e. a rectangular grid graph with a rectangular hole. We show that this problem can be solved in linear time.","PeriodicalId":50323,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129054123500065","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
One of the well-known NP-hard optimization problems in graph theory is finding the longest path in a graph. This problem remains NP-hard for general grid graphs, and its complexity is open for grid graphs that have a limited number of holes. In this paper, we study this problem for odd-sized [Formula: see text]-shaped grid graphs, i.e. a rectangular grid graph with a rectangular hole. We show that this problem can be solved in linear time.
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