Solving Some Instances of the 2-Color Problem

摘要

In the field of Discrete Tomography, the 2-color problem consists in determining a matrix whose elements are of two different types, starting from its horizontal and vertical projections. It is known that the one color problem has a polynomial time reconstruction algorithm, while, with k ≥ 2, the k-color problem is NP-complete. Thus, the 2-color problem constitutes an interesting example of a problem just in the frontier between hard and easy problems.rnIn this paper we define a linear time algorithm to solve a set of its instances, where some values of the horizontal and vertical projections are constant, while the others are upper bounded by a positive number proportional to the dimension of the problem. Our algorithm relies on classical studies for the solution of the one color problem.