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We consider the k-outconnected directed Steiner tree problem (k-DST). Given a directed edge-weighted graph $G=(V,E,w)$, where $V=\{r\}\cup S \cup T$, and an integer $k$, the goal is to find a minimum cost subgraph of $G$ in which there are…

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We present new distributed algorithms for constructing a Steiner Forest in the CONGEST model. Our deterministic algorithm finds, for any given constant $\epsilon>0$, a $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation in $\tilde{O}(sk+\sqrt{\min(st,n)})$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Christoph Lenzen , Boaz Patt-Shamir

We give approximation schemes for Subset TSP and Steiner Tree on unit disk graphs, and more generally, on intersection graphs of similarly sized connected fat (not necessarily convex) polygons in the plane. As a first step towards this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Dániel Marx

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 consider the rooted orienteering problem in Euclidean space: Given $n$ points $P$ in $\mathbb R^d$, a root point $s\in P$ and a budget $\mathcal B>0$, find a path that starts from $s$, has total length at most $\mathcal B$, and visits as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Robert Krauthgamer , Havana Rika

A {$t$-stretch tree cover} of a metric space $M = (X,\delta)$, for a parameter $t \ge 1$, is a collection of trees such that every pair of points has a $t$-stretch path in one of the trees. Tree covers provide an important sketching tool…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Hung Le , Lazar Milenković , Shay Solomon , Tianyi Zhang

We consider the \textsc{Edge Multiway Cut} problem on planar graphs. It is known that this can be solved in $n^{O(\sqrt{t})}$ time [Klein, Marx, ICALP 2012] and not in $n^{o(\sqrt{t})}$ time under the Exponential Time Hypothesis [Marx,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sukanya Pandey , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Given an edge-weighted graph, how many minimum $k$-cuts can it have? This is a fundamental question in the intersection of algorithms, extremal combinatorics, and graph theory. It is particularly interesting in that the best known bounds…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li

Consider a compact $M \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and $r > 0$. A maximal distance minimizer problem is to find a connected compact set $\Sigma$ of the minimal length, such that \[ \max_{y \in M} dist (y, \Sigma) \leq r. \] The inverse problem is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Mikhail Basok , Danila Cherkashin , Yana Teplitskaya

The minimum degree spanning tree (MDST) problem requires the construction of a spanning tree $T$ for graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices, such that the maximum degree $d$ of $T$ is the smallest among all spanning trees of $G$. In this paper,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Michael Dinitz , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Calvin Newport

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points that are moving in the plane, we consider the problem of computing a spanning tree for these moving points that does not change its combinatorial structure during the point movement. The objective is to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

The hop-constrained Steiner tree problem (HSTP) is a generalization of the classical Steiner tree problem. It asks for a minimum cost subtree that spans some specified nodes of a given graph, such that the number of edges between each node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Adalat Jabrayilov

The Minimum Linear Arrangement problem (MLA) consists of finding a mapping $\pi$ from vertices of a graph to distinct integers that minimizes $\sum_{\{u,v\}\in E}|\pi(u) - \pi(v)|$. In that setting, vertices are often assumed to lie on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lluís Alemany-Puig , Juan Luis Esteban , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

We study the generalized minimum Manhattan network (GMMN) problem: given a set $P$ of pairs of two points in the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$, we are required to find a minimum-length geometric network which consists of axis-aligned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yuya Masumura , Taihei Oki , Yutaro Yamaguchi

We obtain polynomial-time approximation-preserving reductions (up to a factor of 1 + \epsilon) from the prize-collecting Steiner tree and prize-collecting Steiner forest problems in planar graphs to the corresponding problems in graphs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-23 Chandra Chekuri , Alina Ene , Nitish Korula

We initiate the study of degree-bounded network design problems in the online setting. The degree-bounded Steiner tree problem { which asks for a subgraph with minimum degree that connects a given set of vertices { is perhaps one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Sina Dahghani , Soheil Ehsani , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Vahid Liaghat , Harald Racke

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

We give a 1.25 approximation algorithm for the Steiner Tree Problem with distances one and two, improving on the best known bound for that problem.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-10-13 Piotr Berman , Marek Karpinski , Alex Zelikovsky

In this paper, we study the form over the minimum spanning tree problem (MST) from which we will derive an intuitively generalized model and new methods with the upper bound of runtimes of logarithm. The new pattern we made has taken…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Yong Tan

In the Steiner Path Aggregation Problem, our goal is to aggregate paths in a directed network into a single arborescence without significantly disrupting the paths. In particular, we are given a directed multigraph with colored arcs, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Da Qi Chen , Daniel Hathcock , D Ellis Hershkowitz , R. Ravi