The eventual junction-occupation conjecture for optimal polygon fillings

Let GG be the polygonal domain under consideration and let M(G)M(G) be its medial axis, including its junction points. An optimal filling solution is a filling by NN discs maximizing the paper's filling measure.

Eventual junction-occupation conjecture. For a given GG and M(G)M(G), there is an NN' such that for NNN\geq N', the junction points are always occupied in the optimal filling solutions.

If true, sufficiently large optimal fillings would occupy every junction point. The supplied text uses this claim to justify eventual self-correction of the heuristic algorithm, but provides no proof or resolution status.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Carolyn L. Phillips, Joshua A. Anderson, Elizabeth R. Chen and Sharon C. Glotzer, “Optimal Fillings - A new spatial subdivision problem related to packing and covering”, arXiv:1208.5752 (2012).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.