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Minimum Bisection Is NP-hard on Unit Disk Graphs

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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2014 (MFCS 2014)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 8635))

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In this paper we prove that the Min-Bisection problem is NP-hard on unit disk graphs, thus solving a longstanding open question.

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Díaz, J., Mertzios, G.B. (2014). Minimum Bisection Is NP-hard on Unit Disk Graphs. In: Csuhaj-Varjú, E., Dietzfelbinger, M., Ésik, Z. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2014. MFCS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8635. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44465-8_22

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