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We investigate the Minimum Eccentricity Shortest Path problem in some structured graph classes. It asks for a given graph to find a shortest path with minimum eccentricity. Although it is NP-hard in general graphs, we demonstrate that a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Feodor F. Dragan , Arne Leitert

The problem considered is the following. Given a graph with edge weights satisfying the triangle inequality, and a degree bound for each vertex, compute a low-weight spanning tree such that the degree of each vertex is at most its specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 S. Fekete , S. Khuller , M. Klemmstein , B. Raghavachari , Neal E. Young

Given an {\em unweighted} undirected graph $G = (V,E)$, and a pair of parameters $\epsilon > 0$, $\beta = 1,2,\ldots$, a subgraph $G' =(V,H)$, $H \subseteq E$, of $G$ is a {\em $(1+\epsilon,\beta)$-spanner} (aka, a {\em near-additive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman

$t$-spanners are used to approximate the pairwise distances between a set of points in a metric space. They have only a few edges compared to the total number of pairs and they provide a $t$-approximation on the distance of any two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-29 David Eppstein , Hadi Khodabandeh

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 graph that contains a spanning tree of diameter at most $t$ clearly admits a tree $t$-spanner, since a tree $t$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a sub tree of $G$ such that the distance between pairs of vertices in the tree is at most $t$ times…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Ioannis Papoutsakis

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

Graph spanners and emulators are sparse structures that approximately preserve distances of the original graph. While there has been an extensive amount of work on additive spanners, so far little attention was given to weighted graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Michael Elkin , Yuval Gitlitz , Ofer Neiman

Resolving an open question from 2006, we prove the existence of light-weight bounded-degree spanners for unit ball graphs in the metrics of bounded doubling dimension, and we design a simple $\mathcal{O}(\log^*n)$-round distributed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-08 David Eppstein , Hadi Khodabandeh

Given a set P of points in the plane, an Euclidean t-spanner for P is a geometric graph that preserves the Euclidean distances between every pair of points in P up to a constant factor t. The weight of a geometric graph refers to the total…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Paz Carmi , Lilach Chaitman-Yerushalmi

Given a 2-edge connected, unweighted, and undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, a $\sigma$-tree spanner is a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ in which the ratio between the distance in $T$ of any pair of vertices and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Davide Bilò , Kleitos Papadopoulos

With applications in distribution systems and communication networks, the minimum stretch spanning tree problem is to find a spanning tree T of a graph G such that the maximum distance in T between two adjacent vertices is minimized. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Lan Lin , Yixun Lin

A tree $t$-spanner $T$ of a graph $G$ is a spanning tree of $G$ such that the distance in $T$ between every pair of verices is at most $t$ times the distance in $G$ between them. There are efficient algorithms that find a tree $t\cdot…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Ioannis Papoutsakis

Given parameters $\alpha\geq 1,\beta\geq 0$, a subgraph $G'=(V,H)$ of an $n$-vertex unweighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is called an $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner if for every pair $u,v\in V$ of vertices, $d_{G'}(u,v)\leq \alpha…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Michael Elkin , Shaked Matar

In length-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) we are given an $n$-node graph $G = (V,E)$ with edge weights $w : E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ and edge lengths $l: E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ along with a root node $r \in V$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang

A $t$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a subgraph $H$ in which all distances are preserved up to a multiplicative $t$ factor. A classical result of Alth\"ofer et al. is that for every integer $k$ and every graph $G$, there is a $(2k-1)$-spanner of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Eden Chlamtáč , Michael Dinitz , Thomas Robinson

Graph sketching is a powerful paradigm for analyzing graph structure via linear measurements introduced by Ahn, Guha, and McGregor (SODA'12) that has since found numerous applications in streaming, distributed computing, and massively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Michael Kapralov , Huacheng Yu

Given a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane and a parameter $\varepsilon>0$, a Euclidean $(1+\varepsilon)$-spanner is a geometric graph $G=(S,E)$ that contains, for all $p,q\in S$, a $pq$-path of weight at most $(1+\varepsilon)\|pq\|$. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Csaba D. Tóth

Lightness and sparsity are two natural parameters for Euclidean $(1+\varepsilon)$-spanners. Classical results show that, when the dimension $d\in \mathbb{N}$ and $\varepsilon>0$ are constant, every set $S$ of $n$ points in $d$-space admits…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sujoy Bhore , Csaba D. Toth

Graphs with bounded highway dimension were introduced by Abraham et al. [SODA 2010] as a model of transportation networks. We show that any such graph can be embedded into a distribution over bounded treewidth graphs with arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Wai Shing Fung , Jochen Könemann , Ian Post