TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-Dimensional Stable Roommates in 2-Dimensional Euclidean Space
AU - Chen, Jiehua
AU - Roy, Sanjukta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - We investigate the Euclidean d-Dimensional Stable Roommates problem, which asks whether a given set V of d n points from the 2-dimensional Euclidean space can be partitioned into n disjoint (unordered) subsets Π = {V1, , Vn} with |Vi| = d for each Vi ϵ Π such that Π is stable. Here, stability means that no point subset W ⊆ V is blocking Π, and W is said to be blocking Πif |W| = d such that Σ w ϵW δ(w,w) < Σ vϵΠ(w) δ(w, v) holds for each point w ϵ W, where Π (w) denotes the subset Vi ϵ Π which contains w and δ(a, b) denotes the Euclidean distance between points a and b. Complementing the existing known polynomial-time result for d = 2, we show that such polynomial-time algorithms cannot exist for any fixed number d ≥ 3 unless P=NP. Our result for d = 3 answers a decade-long open question in the theory of Stable Matching and Hedonic Games [18, 1, 10, 26, 21].
AB - We investigate the Euclidean d-Dimensional Stable Roommates problem, which asks whether a given set V of d n points from the 2-dimensional Euclidean space can be partitioned into n disjoint (unordered) subsets Π = {V1, , Vn} with |Vi| = d for each Vi ϵ Π such that Π is stable. Here, stability means that no point subset W ⊆ V is blocking Π, and W is said to be blocking Πif |W| = d such that Σ w ϵW δ(w,w) < Σ vϵΠ(w) δ(w, v) holds for each point w ϵ W, where Π (w) denotes the subset Vi ϵ Π which contains w and δ(a, b) denotes the Euclidean distance between points a and b. Complementing the existing known polynomial-time result for d = 2, we show that such polynomial-time algorithms cannot exist for any fixed number d ≥ 3 unless P=NP. Our result for d = 3 answers a decade-long open question in the theory of Stable Matching and Hedonic Games [18, 1, 10, 26, 21].
KW - Euclidean preferences
KW - NP-hardness
KW - coalition formation games
KW - multidimensional stable roommates
KW - stable cores
KW - stable matchings
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U2 - 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.36
DO - 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.36
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85137569607
T3 - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
BT - 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2022
A2 - Chechik, Shiri
A2 - Navarro, Gonzalo
A2 - Rotenberg, Eva
A2 - Herman, Grzegorz
PB - Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
T2 - 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2022
Y2 - 5 September 2022 through 9 September 2022
ER -