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We investigate the complexity of finding a transformation from a given spanning tree in a graph to another given spanning tree in the same graph via a sequence of edge flips. The exchange property of the matroid bases immediately yields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Nicolas Bousquet , Takehiro Ito , Yusuke Kobayashi , Haruka Mizuta , Paul Ouvrard , Akira Suzuki , Kunihiro Wasa

The minimum constraint removal problem seeks to find the minimum number of constraints, i.e., obstacles, that need to be removed to connect a start to a goal location with a collision-free path. This problem is NP-hard and has been studied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

Let $R$ and $B$ be two disjoint sets of points in the plane where the points of $R$ are colored red and the points of $B$ are colored blue, and let $n=|R\cup B|$. A bichromatic spanning tree is a spanning tree in the complete bipartite…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ahmad Biniaz , Prosenjit Bose , David Eppstein , Anil Maheshwari , Pat Morin , Michiel Smid

This article studies the Minimum Spanning Tree Problem under Explorable Uncertainty as well as a related vertex uncertainty version of the problem. We particularly consider special instance types, including cactus graphs, for which we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Corinna Mathwieser , Eranda Cela

In this article, we study the Euclidean minimum spanning tree problem in an imprecise setup. The problem is known as the \emph{Minimum Spanning Tree Problem with Neighborhoods} in the literature. We study the problem where the neighborhoods…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sanjana Dey , Ramesh K. Jallu , Subhas C. Nandy

In this paper the minimum spanning tree problem with uncertain edge costs is discussed. In order to model the uncertainty a discrete scenario set is specified and a robust framework is adopted to choose a solution. The min-max, min-max…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

We study the problem of connecting the parts of a multipartite graph using a minimum number of edges under a matching constraint. We introduce interconnection trees, defined as matchings whose projections onto the quotient graph form a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Noé Demange , Yann Strozecki

We address here spanning tree problems on a graph with binary edge weights. For a general weighted graph the minimum spanning tree is solved in super-linear running time, even when the edges of the graph are pre-sorted. A related problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Dorit S. Hochbaum

Given a set of points in the Euclidean plane, the Euclidean \textit{$\delta$-minimum spanning tree} ($\delta$-MST) problem is the problem of finding a spanning tree with maximum degree no more than $\delta$ for the set of points such the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Patrick J. Andersen , Charl J. Ras

Given a graph $G$ and two spanning trees $T$ and $T'$ in $G$, Spanning Tree Reconfiguration asks whether there is a step-by-step transformation from $T$ to $T'$ such that all intermediates are also spanning trees of $G$, by exchanging an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Tesshu Hanaka , Yuni Iwamasa , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yuto Okada , Rin Saito

Given two sets of points in the plane, $P$ of $n$ terminals and $S$ of $m$ Steiner points, a Steiner tree of $P$ is a tree spanning all points of $P$ and some (or none or all) points of $S$. A Steiner tree with length of longest edge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-12-08 A. Karim Abu-Affash

Short spanning trees subject to additional constraints are important building blocks in various approximation algorithms. Especially in the context of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), new techniques for finding spanning trees with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Martin Nägele , Rico Zenklusen

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

Minimum spanning trees are important tools in the analysis and design of networks. Many practical applications require their computation, ranging from biology and linguistics to economy and telecommunications. The set of cycles of a network…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Manuel Dubinsky , Kun-Mao Chao , César Massri , Gabriel Taubin

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 $k$-Section denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into $k$ sets of sizes as equal as possible while minimizing the cut width, which is the number of edges between these sets. When $k$ is an input…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Cristina G. Fernandes , Tina Janne Schmidt , Anusch Taraz

It has recently been shown that the NP-hard problem of calculating the minimum number of hybridization events that is needed to explain a set of rooted binary phylogenetic trees by means of a hybridization network is fixed-parameter…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-03-20 Leo van Iersel , Simone Linz

A natural way to deal with multiple, partially conflicting objectives is turning all the objectives but one into budget constraints. Some classical polynomial-time optimization problems, such as spanning tree and forest, shortest path,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-11 Fabrizio Grandoni , Rico Zenklusen

For complexity of the heterogeneous minimum spanning forest problem has not been determined, we reduce 3-SAT which is NP-complete to 2-heterogeneous minimum spanning forest problem to prove this problem is NP-hard and spread result to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Zhujun Zhang , Qiang Sun

We study the electrical distribution network reconfiguration problem, defined as follows. We are given an undirected graph with a root vertex, demand at each non-root vertex, and resistance on each edge. Then, we want to find a spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Takehiro Ito , Naonori Kakimura , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yoshio Okamoto