On Minimal-Perimeter Lattice Animals

Gill Barequet, Gil Ben-Shachar

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Abstract

A lattice animal is a connected set of cells on a lattice. The perimeter of a lattice animal A consists of all the cells that do not belong to A, but that have a least one neighboring cell of A. We consider minimal-perimeter lattice animals, that is, animals whose periemeter is minimal for all animals of the same area, and provide a set of conditions that are sufficient for a lattice to have the property that inflating all minimal-perimeter animals of a certain size yields (without repetitions) all minimal-perimeter animals of a new, larger size. We demonstrate this result for polyhexes (animals on the two-dimensional hexagonal lattice).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLATIN 2020
Subtitle of host publicationTheoretical Informatics - 14th Latin American Symposium 2021, Proceedings
EditorsYoshiharu Kohayakawa, Flávio Keidi Miyazawa
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages519-531
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030617912
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event14th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2020 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Duration: 5 Jan 20218 Jan 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12118 LNCS

Conference

Conference14th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2020
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CitySao Paulo
Period5/01/218/01/21

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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