Pancake Flipping is hard

• Published in: Journal of computer and system sciences Vol. 81; no. 8; pp. 1556 - 1574
• Main Authors: Bulteau, Laurent, Fertin, Guillaume, Rusu, Irena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.12.2015; Elsevier
• Subjects: Bioinformatics; Computational Complexity; Computer Science; Life Sciences; Pancake problem; Permutations; Prefix reversals; Quantitative Methods; Permutations; Pancake problem; Prefix reversals; Computational complexity

Pancake Flipping is the problem of sorting a stack of pancakes of different sizes (that is, a permutation), when the only allowed operation is to insert a spatula anywhere in the stack and to flip the pancakes above it (that is, to perform a prefix reversal). In the burnt variant, one side of each p...