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Given a graph $G = (V, E)$, we wish to compute a spanning tree whose maximum vertex degree, i.e. tree degree, is as small as possible. Computing the exact optimal solution is known to be NP-hard, since it generalizes the Hamiltonian path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ran Duan , Haoqing He , Tianyi Zhang

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

Given a set of $k$-colored points in the plane, we consider the problem of finding $k$ trees such that each tree connects all points of one color class, no two trees cross, and the total edge length of the trees is minimized. For $k=1$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Sergey Bereg , Krzysztof Fleszar , Philipp Kindermann , Sergey Pupyrev , Joachim Spoerhase , Alexander Wolff

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

In the first part of the paper, we present an (1+\mu)-approximation algorithm to the minimum-spanning tree of points in a planar arrangement of lines, where the metric is the number of crossings between the spanning tree and the lines. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Sariel Har-Peled , Piotr Indyk

The semi-streaming model is a variant of the streaming model frequently used for the computation of graph problems. It allows the edges of an $n$-node input graph to be read sequentially in $p$ passes using $\tilde{O}(n)$ space. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yi-Jun Chang , Martin Farach-Colton , Tsan-Sheng Hsu , Meng-Tsung Tsai

Given a set of points, we define a minimum Steiner point tree to be a tree interconnecting these points and possibly some additional points such that the length of every edge is at most 1 and the number of additional points is minimized. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-22 M. Brazil , C. J. Ras , D. A. Thomas

We study the following two maximization problems related to spanning trees in the Euclidean plane. It is not known whether or not these problems are NP-hard. We present approximation algorithms with better approximation ratios for both…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Ahmad Biniaz

In the length-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) problem, we are given an $n$-node edge-weighted graph $G$ and a length constraint $h \geq 1$. Our goal is to find a spanning tree of $G$ whose diameter is at most $h$ with minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-17 D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang

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

In the longest plane spanning tree problem, we are given a finite planar point set $\mathcal{P}$, and our task is to find a plane (i.e., noncrossing) spanning tree for $\mathcal{P}$ with maximum total Euclidean edge length. Despite more…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Sergio Cabello , Michael Hoffmann , Katharina Klost , Wolfgang Mulzer , Josef Tkadlec

In this paper, we study the form over the minimum spanning tree problem (MST) from which we will derive an intuitively generalized model and new methods with the upper bound of runtimes of logarithm. The new pattern we made has taken…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Yong Tan

We study the classic Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. Given a set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points, the goal is to produce a spanning tree for $X$ with weight within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan , Peilin Zhong

We present time-space trade-offs for computing the Euclidean minimum spanning tree of a set $S$ of $n$ point-sites in the plane. More precisely, we assume that $S$ resides in a random-access memory that can only be read. The edges of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Bahareh Banyassady , Luis Barba , Wolfgang Mulzer

Color-constrained subgraph problems are those where we are given an edge-colored (directed or undirected) graph and the task is to find a specific type of subgraph, like a spanning tree, an arborescence, a single-source shortest path tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-24 P. S. Ardra , Jasine Babu , Kritika Kashyap , R. Krithika , Sreejith K. Pallathumadam , Deepak Rajendraprasad

For a weighted graph $G = (V, E, w)$ and a designated source vertex $s \in V$, a spanning tree that simultaneously approximates a shortest-path tree w.r.t. source $s$ and a minimum spanning tree is called a shallow-light tree (SLT).…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hung Le , Shay Solomon , Cuong Than , Csaba D. Tóth , Tianyi Zhang

Network interdiction problems are a natural way to study the sensitivity of a network optimization problem with respect to the removal of a limited set of edges or vertices. One of the oldest and best-studied interdiction problems is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Rico Zenklusen

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

Given a set of $n$ red and $n$ blue points in the plane, we are interested in matching red points with blue points by straight line segments so that the segments do not cross. We develop a range of tools for dealing with the non-crossing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Marko Savić , Miloš Stojaković

We present a novel self-stabilizing algorithm for minimum spanning tree (MST) construction. The space complexity of our solution is $O(\log^2n)$ bits and it converges in $O(n^2)$ rounds. Thus, this algorithm improves the convergence time of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Lélia Blin , Shlomi Dolev , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis