Two Hands Are Better Than One (up to constant factors)

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2012-01-08

arxiv.org/abs/1201.1650v1

Computer Science

Computational Complexity

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We study the difference between the standard seeded model of tile self-assembly, and the "seedless" two-handed model of tile self-assembly. Most of our results suggest that the two-handed model is more powerful. In particular, we show how to simulate any seeded system with a two-handed system that is essentially just a constant factor larger. We exhibit finite shapes with a busy-beaver separation in the number of distinct tiles required by seeded versus two-handed, and exhibit an infinite shape that can be constructed two-handed but not seeded. Finally, we show that verifying whether a given system uniquely assembles a desired supertile is co-NP-complete in the two-handed model, while it was known to be polynomially solvable in the seeded model.

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