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Discrete figures (or polyominoes) are fundamental objects in combinatorics and discrete geometry, having been studied in many contexts, ranging from game theory to tiling problems. In 2008, Provençal introduced the concept of prime and composed polyominoes, which arises naturally from a composition operator acting on these discrete figures. Our goal is to study further polyomino composition and, in particular, factorization of polyominoes as a product of prime ones. We provide a polynomial time (with respect to the perimeter of the polyomino) algorithm that allows one to compute such a factorization. As a consequence, primality of polyominoes can be decided in polynomial time.
This research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
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Blondin Massé, A., Tall, A.M., Tremblay, H. (2014). On the Arithmetics of Discrete Figures. In: Dediu, AH., Martín-Vide, C., Sierra-Rodríguez, JL., Truthe, B. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8370. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04921-2_16
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