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We study the minimum spanning tree distribution on the space of spanning trees of the $n$-by-$n$ grid for large $n$. We establish bounds on the decay rates of the probability of the most and the least probable spanning trees as…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Kristopher Tapp

Tree projections provide a unifying framework to deal with most structural decomposition methods of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Within this framework, a CSP instance is decomposed into a number of sub-problems, called views,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Georg Gottlob , Gianlugi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

We consider the probability that a spanning tree chosen uniformly at random from a graph can be partitioned into a fixed number $k$ of trees of equal size by removing $k-1$ edges. In that case, the spanning tree is called {\em splittable}.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-25 David Gillman , Jacob Platnick , Dana Randall

The aim of this paper is to highlight and explore a traditional problem, which is the minimum spanning tree, and finding the shortest-path in network routing, by using Swarm Intelligence. This work to be considered as an investigation topic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Mohamed A. El Galil

We study a maximization problem for geometric network design. Given a set of $n$ compact neighborhoods in $\mathbb{R}^d$, select a point in each neighborhood, so that the longest spanning tree on these points (as vertices) has maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Ke Chen , Adrian Dumitrescu

The run time complexity of state-of-the-art inference algorithms in graph-based dependency parsing is super-linear in the number of input words (n). Recently, pruning algorithms for these models have shown to cut a large portion of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Effi Levi , Roi Reichart , Ari Rappoport

We investigate the computation of minimum-cost spanning trees satisfying prescribed vertex degree constraints: Given a graph $G$ and a constraint function $D$, we ask for a (minimum-cost) spanning tree $T$ such that for each vertex $v$, $T$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Narek Bojikian , Alexander Firbas , Robert Ganian , Hung P. Hoang , Krisztina Szilágyi

We study the relation between the minimal spanning tree (MST) on many random points and the "near-minimal" tree which is optimal subject to the constraint that a proportion $\delta$ of its edges must be different from those of the MST.…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-24 David Aldous , Charles Bordenave , Marc Lelarge

This paper introduces a method to extract a hierarchical tree representation from 3D unorganized polygonal data. The proposed approach first extracts a graph representation of the surface, which serves as the foundation for structural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Diogo de Andrade , Nuno Fachada

The Steiner tree problem is a classical NP-hard optimization problem with a wide range of practical applications. In an instance of this problem, we are given an undirected graph G=(V,E), a set of terminals R, and non-negative costs c_e for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-12-24 Jochen Konemann , David Pritchard , Kunlun Tan

We study the problem of low-stretch spanning trees in graphs of bounded width: bandwidth, cutwidth, and treewidth. We show that any simple connected graph $G$ with a linear arrangement of bandwidth $b$ can be embedded into a distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Glencora Borradaile , Erin Wolf Chambers , David Eppstein , William Maxwell , Amir Nayyeri

Many discrete optimization problems amount to selecting a feasible set of edges of least weight. We consider in this paper the context of spatial graphs where the positions of the vertices are uncertain and belong to known uncertainty sets.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

The Euclidean Steiner Minimal Tree problem takes as input a set $\mathcal P$ of points in the Euclidean plane and finds the minimum length network interconnecting all the points of $\mathcal P$. In this paper, in continuation to the works…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anubhav Dhar , Soumita Hait , Sudeshna Kolay

In this paper, we consider the minimum spanning tree problem (for short, MSTP) on an arbitrary set of $n$ points of $d$-dimensional space in $l_1$-norm. For this problem, for each fixed $d\geq 2$, there is a known algorithm of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 K. V. Kaymakov , D. S. Malyshev

In this work, we introduce a quantitative methodology to define what is the main trunk and what are the significant branches of a minimum spanning tree (MST). We apply it to the pulsar tree, i.e. the MST of the pulsar population constructed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 C. R. García , Diego F. Torres

We analyze a new general representation for the Minimum Weight Steiner Tree (MST) problem which translates the topological connectivity constraint into a set of local conditions which can be analyzed by the so called cavity equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-14 M. Bayati , A. Braunstein , R. Zecchina

In the spanning tree congestion problem, given a connected graph $G$, the objective is to compute a spanning tree $T$ in $G$ that minimizes its maximum edge congestion, where the congestion of an edge $e$ of $T$ is the number of edges in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Huong Luu , Marek Chrobak

In the Steiner Tree problem we are given an edge weighted undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and a set of terminals $R \subseteq V$. The task is to find a connected subgraph of $G$ containing $R$ and minimizing the sum of weights of its edges. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Radek Hušek , Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík

Motivated by the problem of routing reliably and scalably in a graph, we introduce the notion of a splicer, the union of spanning trees of a graph. We prove that for any bounded-degree n-vertex graph, the union of two random spanning trees…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-10 Navin Goyal , Luis Rademacher , Santosh Vempala

Spanning trees of low average stretch on the non-tree edges, as introduced by Alon et al. [SICOMP 1995], are a natural graph-theoretic object. In recent years, they have found significant applications in solvers for symmetric diagonally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci