“…, p k , where, for each i 2 [k], p i is a shortest path from x i to y i in G, x i and y i are on the infinite face f 1 of G, p i and p j are non-crossing for every i, j 2 [k]. We stress that we know U but we ignore the p i 's; indeed, algorithms solving the NCSP problem in [3,4,21] compute the union of the non-crossing shortest paths without listing every single path.…”