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A spanner is a sparse subgraph of a given graph $G$ which preserves distances, measured w.r.t.\ some distance metric, up to a multiplicative stretch factor. This paper addresses the problem of constructing graph spanners w.r.t.\ the group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Davide Bilò , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Alessandro Straziota

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

Spanners for metric spaces have been extensively studied, both in general metrics and in restricted classes, perhaps most notably in low-dimensional Euclidean spaces -- due to their numerous applications. Euclidean spanners can be viewed as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Omri Kahalon , Hung Le , Lazar Milenkovic , Shay Solomon

A Euclidean noncrossing Steiner $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner for a point set $P\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ is a planar straight-line graph that, for any two points $a, b \in P$, contains a path whose length is at most $1+\epsilon$ times the Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Sujoy Bhore , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Lazar Milenković , Csaba D. Tóth , Karol Węgrzycki , Sampson Wong

A geometric $t$-spanner for a set $S$ of $n$ point sites is an edge-weighted graph for which the (weighted) distance between any two sites $p,q \in S$ is at most $t$ times the original distance between $p$ and~$q$. We study geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Sarita de Berg , Marc van Kreveld , Frank Staals

Let $H$ be an edge-weighted graph, and let $G$ be a subgraph of $H$. We say that $G$ is an $f$-fault-tolerant $t$-spanner for $H$, if the following is true for any subset $F$ of at most $f$ edges of $G$: For any two vertices $p$ and $q$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ahmad Biniaz , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

An \emph{additive +$\beta W$ spanner} of an edge weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that for every pair of vertices $u$ and $v$, $d_{H}(u,v) \le d_G(u,v) + \beta W$, where $d_G(u,v)$ is the shortest path length from $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Reyan Ahmed , Debajyoti Mondal , Rahnuma Islam Nishat

Let $V$ be a finite set of points in the plane. We present a 2-local algorithm that constructs a plane $\frac{4 \pi \sqrt{3}}{9}$-spanner of the unit-disk graph $\UDG(V)$. This algorithm makes only one round of communication and each point…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-09-18 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , Michiel Smid , Daming Xu

We consider the problem of computing shortest paths in weighted unit-disk graphs in constant dimension $d$. Although the single-source and all-pairs variants of this problem are well-studied in the plane case, no non-trivial exact distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Pawlewicz , Piotr Sankowski

Efficient algorithms are presented for constructing spanners in geometric intersection graphs. For a unit ball graph in R^k, a (1+\epsilon)-spanner is obtained using efficient partitioning of the space into hypercubes and solving…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

A graph is called a $k$-planar unit distance graph if it can be drawn in the plane such that every edge is a unit line segment and is involved in at most $k$ crossings. We investigate $u_k(n)$, the maximum number of edges of such graphs on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Panna Gehér , Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Dániel G. Simon , Géza Tóth

We study two popular ways to sketch the shortest path distances of an input graph. The first is distance preservers, which are sparse subgraphs that agree with the distances of the original graph on a given set of demand pairs. Prior work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Greg Bodwin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

An assumption that researchers have often used to model interference in a wireless network is the unit disk graph model. While many theoretical results and performance guarantees have been obtained under this model, an open research…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ashwin Ganesan

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ and $\epsilon>0$, a $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner is a spanning subgraph $G'$ whose shortest path distances approximate those of $G$ within a $(1+\epsilon)$ factor. If $G$ is from certain minor-closed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Michelangelo Grigni , Hao-Hsiang Hung

Unit disk graphs are the intersection graphs of unit radius disks in the Euclidean plane. Deciding whether there exists an embedding of a given unit disk graph, i.e. unit disk graph recognition, is an important geometric problem, and has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Onur Çağırıcı

The diameter of a graph is one if its most important parameters, being used in many real-word applications. In particular, the diameter dictates how fast information can spread throughout data and communication networks. Thus, it is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Keerti Choudhary , Omer Gold

We study the problem of computing geometric spanners for (additively) weighted point sets. A weighted point set is a set of pairs $(p,r)$ where $p$ is a point in the plane and $r$ is a real number. The distance between two points…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-01-28 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , Mathieu Couture

Hyperbolic uniform disk graphs (HUDGs) are intersection graphs of disks with some radius $r$ in the hyperbolic plane, where $r$ may be constant or depend on the number of vertices in a family of HUDGs. We show that HUDGs with constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Thomas Bläsius , Emil Dohse , Deborah Haun , Laura Merker

Let $G$ be an unweighted $n$-node undirected graph. A \emph{$\beta$-additive spanner} of $G$ is a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that distances in $H$ are stretched at most by an additive term $\beta$ w.r.t. the corresponding distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Davide Bilò , Fabrizio Grandoni , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

This paper addresses the problem of determining the maximum number of edges in a unit distance graph (UDG) of $n$ vertices using computer search. An unsolved problem of Paul Erd\H{o}s asks the maximum number of edges $u(n)$ a UDG of $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Peter Engel , Owen Hammond-Lee , Yiheng Su , Dániel Varga , Pál Zsámboki