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Recognizing shrinkable complexes is NP-complete

Olivier Devillers
Marc Glisse

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We say that a simplicial complex is shrinkable if there exists a sequence of admissible edge contractions that reduces the complex to a single vertex. We prove that it is NP-complete to decide whether a (three-dimensional) simplicial complex is shrinkable. Along the way, we describe examples of contractible complexes which are not shrinkable.
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hal-01015747 , version 1 (27-06-2014)

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Dominique Attali, Olivier Devillers, Marc Glisse, Sylvain Lazard. Recognizing shrinkable complexes is NP-complete. ESA 2014 - 22nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, Sep 2014, Wroclaw, Poland. pp.74-86, ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-44777-2_7⟩. ⟨hal-01015747⟩
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