English

Imposing edges in Minimum Spanning Tree

Data Structures and Algorithms 2019-12-21 v1 Computational Geometry

Abstract

We are interested in the consequences of imposing edges in TT a minimum spanning tree. We prove that the sum of the replacement costs in TT of the imposed edges is a lower bounds of the additional costs. More precisely if r-cost(T,e)(T,e) is the replacement cost of the edge ee, we prove that if we impose a set II of nontree edges of TT then eI\sum_{e \in I} r-cost(T,e)(T,e) \leq cost(TeI)(T_{e \in I}), where II is the set of imposed edges and TeIT_{e \in I} a minimum spanning tree containing all the edges of II.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.09360,
  title  = {Imposing edges in Minimum Spanning Tree},
  author = {Nicolas Isoart and Jean-Charles Régin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09360},
  year   = {2019}
}
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