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We give a simple algorithm for the dynamic approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem. Given a graph $G = (V, E, l)$ with polynomially bounded edge lengths, our data structure processes $|E|$ edge insertions and deletions in total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Rasmus Kyng , Simon Meierhans , Gernot Zöcklein

A span of a given graph $G$ is the maximum distance that two players can keep at all times while visiting all vertices (edges) of $G$ and moving according to certain rules, that produce different variants of span. We prove that the vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Tanja Dravec , Mirjana Mikalački , Andrej Taranenko

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

A $k$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a sparse subgraph that preserves its shortest path distances up to a multiplicative stretch factor of $k$, and a $k$-emulator is similar but not required to be a subgraph of $G$. A classic theorem by Thorup…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Greg Bodwin , Michael Dinitz , Yasamin Nazari

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

Given a point set $P$ in a metric space and a real number $t \geq 1$, an \emph{oriented $t$-spanner} is an oriented graph $\overrightarrow{G}=(P,\overrightarrow{E})$, where for every pair of distinct points $p$ and $q$ in $P$, the shortest…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Kevin Buchin , Antonia Kalb , Anil Maheshwari , Saeed Odak , Michiel Smid , Carolin Rehs , Sampson Wong

Spanners are fundamental graph structures that sparsify graphs at the cost of small stretch. In particular, in recent years, many sequential algorithms constructing additive all-pairs spanners were designed, providing very sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ami Paz , Noam Ravid

Seminal works on light spanners over the years provide spanners with optimal lightness in various graph classes, such as in general graphs, Euclidean spanners, and minor-free graphs. Three shortcomings of previous works on light spanners…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hung Le , Shay Solomon

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

A \emph{spanner} of a graph $G$ is a subgraph $H$ that approximately preserves shortest path distances in $G$. Spanners are commonly applied to compress computation on metric spaces corresponding to weighted input graphs. Classic spanner…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Reyan Ahmed , Greg Bodwin , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Stephen Kobourov , Richard Spence

Inspired by Lelek's idea from [Disjoint mappings and the span of spaces, Fund. Math. 55 (1964), 199 -- 214], we introduce the novel notion of the span of graphs. Using this, we solve the problem of determining the \emph{maximal safety…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Iztok Banič , Andrej Taranenko

We present sweeping line graphs, a generalization of $\Theta$-graphs. We show that these graphs are spanners of the complete graph, as well as of the visibility graph when line segment constraints or polygonal obstacles are considered. Our…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Keenan Lee , André van Renssen

In this paper we introduce and study the Minimum Edge Compact Spanner~(MECS) problem. We prove hardness results related to the problem, design exact and greedy algorithms for solving the problem, and show related experimental results. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Tathagata Mukherjee , Alexander Veremyev , Piyush Kumar , Eduardo Pasiliao

In this thesis, we study two different graph problems. The first problem revolves around geometric spanners. Here, we have a set of points in the plane and we want to connect them with straight line segments, such that there is a path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Sander Verdonschot

A graph whose edges only appear at certain points in time is called a temporal graph (among other names). Such a graph is temporally connected if each ordered pair of vertices is connected by a path which traverses edges in chronological…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Arnaud Casteigts , Michael Raskin , Malte Renken , Viktor Zamaraev

An emanation graph of grade $k$ on a set of points is a plane spanner made by shooting $2^{k+1}$ equally spaced rays from each point, where the shorter rays stop the longer ones upon collision. The collision points are the Steiner points of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Bardia Hamedmohseni , Zahed Rahmati , Debajyoti Mondal

Seminal works on light spanners over the years provide spanners with optimal lightness in various graph classes, such as in general graphs, Euclidean spanners, and minor-free graphs. Three shortcomings of previous works on light spanners…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hung Le , Shay Solomon

Given a directed graph G = (V,E) and an integer k>=1, a k-transitive-closure-spanner (k-TC-spanner) of G is a directed graph H = (V, E_H) that has (1) the same transitive-closure as G and (2) diameter at most k. These spanners were…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-14 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Elena Grigorescu , Kyomin Jung , Sofya Raskhodnikova , David P. Woodruff

Graph coarsening is a technique for solving large-scale graph problems by working on a smaller version of the original graph, and possibly interpolating the results back to the original graph. It has a long history in scientific computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yifan Chen , Rentian Yao , Yun Yang , Jie Chen

A spanner is reliable if it can withstand large, catastrophic failures in the network. More precisely, any failure of some nodes can only cause a small damage in the remaining graph in terms of the dilation, that is, the spanner property is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sariel Har-Peled , Manor Mendel , Dániel Oláh