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Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ and $\epsilon>0$, a $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner is a spanning subgraph $G'$ whose shortest path distances approximate those of $G$ within a $(1+\epsilon)$ factor. If $G$ is from certain minor-closed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Michelangelo Grigni , Hao-Hsiang Hung

Extending some properties from the Euclidean plane to any normed plane, we show the validity of the Monma-Paterson-Suri-Yao algorithm for finding the maximum-weighted spanning tree of a set of $n$ points, where the weight of an edge is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Javier Alonso , Pedro Martín

Given a point set $P$ in the Euclidean space, a geometric $t$-spanner $G$ is a graph on $P$ such that for every pair of points, the shortest path in $G$ between those points is at most a factor $t$ longer than the Euclidean distance between…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Kevin Buchin , Carolin Rehs , Torben Scheele

We study two popular ways to sketch the shortest path distances of an input graph. The first is distance preservers, which are sparse subgraphs that agree with the distances of the original graph on a given set of demand pairs. Prior work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Greg Bodwin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

A roundtrip spanner of a directed graph $G$ is a subgraph of $G$ preserving roundtrip distances approximately for all pairs of vertices. Despite extensive research, there is still a small stretch gap between roundtrip spanners in directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Ruoxu Cen , Ran Duan , Yong Gu

A spanner graph on a set of points in $R^d$ contains a shortest path between any pair of points with length at most a constant factor of their Euclidean distance. In this paper we investigate new models and aim to interpret why good…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Jie Gao , Dengpan Zhou

Given a point set $P$ in the Euclidean plane and a parameter $t$, we define an \emph{oriented $t$-spanner} $G$ as an oriented subgraph of the complete bi-directed graph such that for every pair of points, the shortest closed walk in $G$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kevin Buchin , Joachim Gudmundsson , Antonia Kalb , Aleksandr Popov , Carolin Rehs , André van Renssen , Sampson Wong

We consider the following problem: Given a set $S$ of $n$ distinct points in the plane, how many edge-disjoint plane straight-line spanning paths can be drawn on $S$? Each spanning path must be crossing-free, but edges from different paths…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Philipp Kindermann , Jan Kratochvíl , Giuseppe Liotta , Pavel Valtr

Linear sets on the projective line have attracted a lot of attention because of their link with blocking sets, KM-arcs and rank-metric codes. In this paper, we study linear sets having two points of complementary weight, that is with two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Vito Napolitano , Olga Polverino , Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

Motivated by multipath routing, we introduce a multi-connected variant of spanners. For that purpose we introduce the $p$-multipath cost between two nodes $u$ and $v$ as the minimum weight of a collection of $p$ internally vertex-disjoint…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-09-19 Cyril Gavoille , Quentin Godfroy , Laurent Viennot

A $t$-spanner of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subgraph $H=(V,E')$ that contains a $uv$-path of length at most $t$ for every $uv\in E$. It is known that every $n$-vertex graph admits a $(2k-1)$-spanner with $O(n^{1+1/k})$ edges for $k\geq 1$. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jonathan B. Conroy , Csaba D. Tóth

Given a real number $t>1$, a geometric $t$-spanner is a geometric graph for a point set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with straight lines between vertices such that the ratio of the shortest-path distance between every pair of vertices in the graph…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Abolfazl Poureidi , Mohammad Farshi

In the pairwise weighted spanner problem, the input consists of an $n$-vertex-directed graph, where each edge is assigned a cost and a length. Given $k$ vertex pairs and a distance constraint for each pair, the goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Elena Grigorescu , Nithish Kumar , Young-San Lin

Consider a graph with n nodes and m edges, independent edge weights and lengths, and arbitrary distance demands for node pairs. The spanner problem asks for a minimum-weight subgraph that satisfies these demands via sufficiently short paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fritz Bökler , Markus Chimani , Henning Jasper

For a set of points in the plane and a fixed integer $k > 0$, the Yao graph $Y_k$ partitions the space around each point into $k$ equiangular cones of angle $\theta=2\pi/k$, and connects each point to a nearest neighbor in each cone. It is…

Let $(X,\mathbf{d})$ be a metric space, $V\subseteq X$ a finite set, and $E \subseteq V \times V$. We call the graph $G(E,V)$ a {\em metric} graph if each edge $(u,v) \in E$ has weight $d(u,v)$. In particular edge $(u,u)$ is in the graph…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chávez

We consider upward-planar layered drawings of directed graphs, i.e., crossing-free drawings in which each edge is drawn as a y-monotone curve going upward from its tail to its head, and the y-coordinates of the vertices are integers. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Patrizio Angelini , Sabine Cornelsen , Giordano Da Lozzo , Fabrizio Frati , Philipp Kindermann , Ignaz Rutter , Johannes Zink

Let ${\cal G}=(G,w)$ be a weighted simple finite connected graph, that is, let $G$ be a simple finite connected graph endowed with a function $w$ from the set of the edges of $G$ to the set of real numbers. For any subgraph $G'$ of $G$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Elena Rubei

Let $P \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a planar $n$-point set such that each point $p \in P$ has an associated radius $r_p > 0$. The transmission graph $G$ for $P$ is the directed graph with vertex set $P$ such that for any $p, q \in P$, there is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Haim Kaplan , Wolfgang Mulzer , Liam Roditty , Paul Seiferth

We consider additive spanners of unweighted undirected graphs. Let $G$ be a graph and $H$ a subgraph of $G$. The most na\"ive way to construct an additive $k$-spanner of $G$ is the following: As long as $H$ is not an additive $k$-spanner…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen