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The problem of compatible representatives

Donald E. Knuth, Arvind Raghunathan

cs.DSarXiv:cs/9301116

Abstract

The purpose of this note is to attach a name to a natural class of combinatorial problems and to point out that this class includes many important special cases. We also show that a simple problem of placing nonoverlapping labels on a rectangular map is NP-complete.

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