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Consider~\(n\) nodes distributed independently across~\(N\) cities contained with the unit square~\(S\) according to a distribution~\(f.\) Each city is modelled as an~\(r_n \times r_n\) square contained within~\(S\) and~\(MSTC_n\) denotes…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

Processing graphs with temporal information (the temporal graphs) has become increasingly important in the real world. In this paper, we study efficient solutions to temporal graph applications using new algorithms for Incremental Minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiangyun Ding , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

In this paper, we present a fully-dynamic distributed algorithm for maintaining a minimum spanning tree on general graphs with positive real edge weights. The goal of a dynamic MST algorithm is to update efficiently the minimum spanning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pradosh Kumar Mohapatra

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem in a setting where the edge weights are stochastic from unknown distributions, and the only available information is a single sample of each edge's weight distribution. In this setting, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ruben Hoeksma , Gavin Speek , Marc Uetz

We consider two natural variants of the problem of minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph in the parallel setting: MST verification (verifying if a given tree is an MST) and the sensitivity analysis of an MST (finding the lowest cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

The Minimum Branch Vertices Spanning Tree problem aims to find a spanning tree $T$ in a given graph $G$ with the fewest branch vertices, defined as vertices with a degree three or more in $T$. This problem, known to be NP-hard, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno

The quadratic minimum spanning tree problem (QMSTP) is the problem of finding a spanning tree of a graph such that the total interaction cost between pairs of edges in the tree is minimized. We first show that most of the bounding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Renata Sotirov , Zoe Verchére

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

This paper makes two main contributions: The first is the construction of a near-minimum spanning tree with constant average distortion. The second is a general equivalence theorem relating two refined notions of distortion: scaling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Yair Bartal , Arnold Filtser , Ofer Neiman

We consider the design of sublinear space and query complexity algorithms for estimating the cost of a minimum spanning tree (MST) and the cost of a minimum traveling salesman (TSP) tour in a metric on $n$ points. We first consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Zihan Tan

In recent years there has been a paradigm shift from the study of local task-related activation to the organization and functioning of large-scale functional and structural brain networks. However, a long-standing challenge in this…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-26 Sixtus Dakurah

We consider the bilevel minimum spanning tree (BMST) problem where the leader and the follower choose a spanning tree together, according to different objective functions. By showing that this problem is NP-hard in general, we answer an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Christoph Buchheim , Dorothee Henke , Felix Hommelsheim

Metric embeddings are central to metric theory and its applications. Here we consider embeddings of a different sort: maps from a set to subsets of a metric space so that distances between points are approximated by minimal distances…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-13 David Bryant , Katharina T. Huber , Vincent Moulton , Andreas Spillner

This paper studies Minimum Spanning Trees under incomplete information for its vertices. We assume that no information is available on the precise placement of vertices so that it is only known that vertices belong to some neighborhoods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Víctor Blanco , Elena Fernández , Justo Puerto

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) is an important graph algorithm that has wide ranging applications in the areas of computer networks, VLSI routing, wireless communications among others. Today virtually every computer is built out of multi-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

Now a days many algorithms are invented or being inventing to find the solution for Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree, EMST, problem, as its applicability is increasing in much wide range of fields containing spatial or spatio temporal data…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Hazarath Munaga , Venkata Jarugumalli

Given a rooted point set $P$, the rooted $y-$Monotone Minimum Spanning Tree (rooted $y-$MMST) of $P$ is the spanning geometric graph of $P$ in which all the vertices are connected to the root by some $y-$monotone path and the sum of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Konstantinos Mastakas

We show that the geometry of minimum spanning trees (MST) on random graphs is universal. Due to this geometric universality, we are able to characterise the energy of MST using a scaling distribution ($P(\epsilon)$) found using uniform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Dobrin , P. M. Duxbury

We consider a special case of the generalized minimum spanning tree problem (GMST) and the generalized travelling salesman problem (GTSP) where we are given a set of points inside the integer grid (in Euclidean plane) where each grid cell…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Binay Bhattacharya , Ante Ćustić , Akbar Rafiey , Arash Rafiey , Vladyslav Sokol

Consider~\(n\) nodes~\(\{X_i\}_{1 \leq i \leq n}\) independently distributed in the unit square~\(S,\) each according to a distribution~\(f.\) Nodes~\(X_i\) and~\(X_j\) are joined by an edge if the Euclidean distance~\(d(X_i,X_j)\) is less…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan