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Voronoi diagram on surface of polyhedron

Does anyone know of work on computing the Voronoi diagram of a set of points on a polyhedron, where distance is measured by shortest paths on the surface? I am particularly interested in convex polyhe …
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Computing the Cheeger constant: feasible for which classes?

Computing the Cheeger constant of a graph, also known as the isoperimetric constant (because it is essentially a minimum area/volume ratio), is known to be NP-complete. Generally it is approximated. …
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Voronoi diagram in a graph

Let $G$ be a graph with (positively) weighted edges. I want to define the Voronoi diagram for a set of nodes/sites $S$, to associate with a node $v \in S$ the subgraph $R(v)$ of $G$ induced by all the …
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Is it decidable to determine if a given shape can tile the plane?

I know that it is undecidable to determine if a set of tiles can tile the plane, a result of Berger using Wang tiles. My question is whether it is also known to be undecidable to determine if a single …
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Truly random number generator: Turing computable?

I am seeking a definitive answer to whether or not generation of "truly random" numbers is Turing computable. I don't know how to phrase this precisely. This StackExchange question on "efficient algo …
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Finding spanning spiders

Is there a polynomial-time algorithm to find—if one exists—a spanning spider of a given graph $G$? A spider is a tree with at most one node with degree greater than 2:            I know that various …
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Is the 3-sphere recognition problem NP-complete?

It is known that determining whether or not a given triangulated 3-manifold is a 3-sphere is in NP, via work by Saul Schleimer in 2004: "Sphere recognition lies in NP" arXiv:math/0407047v1 [math.GT]. …
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