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A geometric $t$-spanner $\mathcal{G}$ on a set $S$ of $n$ point sites in a metric space $P$ is a subgraph of the complete graph on $S$ such that for every pair of sites $p,q$ the distance in $\mathcal{G}$ is a most $t$ times the distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Sarita de Berg , Tim Ophelders , Irene Parada , Frank Staals , Jules Wulms

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a minimum weight spanning tree that contains each vertex in a given subset $V_{\rm NT}$ of vertices as an internal vertex. This problem, called Minimum Weight Non-Terminal Spanning Tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi

For any constants $d\ge 1$, $\epsilon >0$, $t>1$, and any $n$-point set $P\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, we show that there is a geometric graph $G=(P,E)$ having $O(n\log^2 n\log\log n)$ edges with the following property: For any $F\subseteq P$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , Vida Dujmovic , Pat Morin

A tree $t$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a spanning tree of $G$ such that the distance between pairs of vertices in the tree is at most $t$ times their distance in $G$. Deciding tree $t$-spanner admissible graphs has been proved to be tractable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Ioannis Papoutsakis

The problem of finding the maximum-weight, planar subgraph of a finite, simple graph with nonnegative real edge weights is well known in industrial and electrical engineering, systems biology, sociology and finance. As the problem is known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Diane Castonguay , Elisângela Silva Dias , Leslie Richard Foulds

In their seminal paper, Alth\"{o}fer et al. (DCG 1993) introduced the {\em greedy spanner} and showed that, for any weighted planar graph $G$, the weight of the greedy $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner is at most $(1+\frac{2}{\epsilon}) \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Hung Le , Shay Solomon , Cuong Than , Csaba D. Tóth , Tianyi Zhang

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, its unit-disk graph $G(P)$ is a graph with $P$ as its vertex set such that two points of $P$ are connected by an edge if their (Euclidean) distance is at most $1$. We consider several classical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Anastasiia Tkachenko , Haitao Wang

A graph is called $t$-tough if the removal of any vertex set $S$ that disconnects the graph leaves at most $|S|/t$ components. The toughness of a graph is the largest $t$ for which the graph is $t$-tough. A graph is minimally $t$-tough if…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Gyula Y Katona , István Kovács , Kitti Varga

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

The greedy spanner in a low dimensional Euclidean space is a fundamental geometric construction that has been extensively studied over three decades as it possesses the two most basic properties of a good spanner: constant maximum degree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hung Le , Cuong Than

We study the problem of finding a triangulation T of a planar point set S such as to minimize the expected distance between two points x and y chosen uniformly at random from S. By distance we mean the length of the shortest path between x…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Laszlo Kozma

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

A function on a topological space is called unimodal if all of its super-level sets are contractible. A minimal unimodal decomposition of a function $f$ is the smallest number of unimodal functions that sum up to $f$. The problem of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Mishal Assif P K , Yuliy Baryshnikov

We investigate how the complexity of Euclidean TSP for point sets $P$ inside the strip $(-\infty,+\infty)\times [0,\delta]$ depends on the strip width $\delta$. We obtain two main results. First, for the case where the points have distinct…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Henk Alkema , Mark de Berg , Remco van der Hofstad , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak

Euclidean spanners are important geometric structures, having found numerous applications over the years. Cornerstone results in this area from the late 80s and early 90s state that for any $d$-dimensional $n$-point Euclidean space, there…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Hung Le , Shay Solomon

A unit disk graph is the intersection graph of a set of unit diameter disks in the plane. In this paper we consider liar's domination problem on unit disk graphs, a variant of dominating set problem. We call this problem as {\it Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Ramesh K Jallu , Gautam K Das

In this paper, we study the Minimum Weight Pairwise Distance Preservers (MWPDP) problem. Consider a positively weighted undirected/directed connected graph $G = (V, E, c)$ and a subset $P$ of pairs of vertices, also called demand pairs. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Mojtaba Abdolmaleki , Yafeng Yin , Neda Masoud

Let $T(n)$ denote the maximum number of unit distances that a set of $n$ points in the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ can determine with the additional condition that the distinct unit length directions determined by the configuration must…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Mark Herman , Jonathan Pakianathan

An \emph{additive $+\beta$ spanner} of a graph $G$ is a subgraph which preserves distances up to an additive $+\beta$ error. Additive spanners are well-studied in unweighted graphs but have only recently received attention in weighted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Reyan Ahmed , Greg Bodwin , Keaton Hamm , Stephen Kobourov , Richard Spence

Temporal graphs have edge sets that change over discrete time steps. Such graphs are temporally connected (TC) if all pairs of vertices can reach each other using paths that traverse the edges in a time-respecting way (temporal paths).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Arnaud Casteigts , Hendrik Molter , Meirav Zehavi