Reducing the generalised Sudoku problem to the Hamiltonian cycle problem

The generalised Sudoku problem with N symbols is known to be NP-complete, and hence is equivalent to any other NP-complete problem, even for the standard restricted version where N is a perfect square. In particular, generalised Sudoku is equivalent to the, classical, Hamiltonian cycle problem. A co...

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Main Author: Michael Haythorpe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016-12-01
Series:AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097286001630038X