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Recognizing Shrinkable Complexes Is NP-Complete

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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 (two-dimensional) simplicial complex is shrinkable. Along the way, we describe examples of contractible complexes that are not shrinkable.
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hal-01384396 , version 1 (19-10-2016)
hal-01384396 , version 2 (05-03-2018)

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Dominique Attali, Olivier Devillers, Marc Glisse, Sylvain Lazard. Recognizing Shrinkable Complexes Is NP-Complete. Journal of Computational Geometry, 2016, 7 (1), pp.430--443. ⟨10.20382/jocg.v7i1a18⟩. ⟨hal-01384396v2⟩
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