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We give a short and easy upper bound on the worst-case size of fault tolerant spanners, which improves on all prior work and is fully optimal at least in the setting of vertex faults.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Greg Bodwin , Shyamal Patel

In fault-tolerant distance labeling we wish to assign short labels to the vertices of a graph $G$ such that from the labels of any three vertices $u,v,f$ we can infer the $u$-to-$v$ distance in the graph $G\setminus \{f\}$. We show that any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Aviv Bar-Natan , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

Understanding the structure of minor-free metrics, namely shortest path metrics obtained over a weighted graph excluding a fixed minor, has been an important research direction since the fundamental work of Robertson and Seymour. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Arnold Filtser , Philip N. Klein , Hung Le

We present a simple greedy procedure to compute an $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner for a graph $G$. We then show that this procedure is useful for building fault-tolerant spanners, as well as spanners for weighted graphs. Our first main result is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Elizaveta Popova , Elad Tzalik

A recent upper bound by Le and Solomon [STOC '23] has established that every $n$-node graph has a $(1+\varepsilon)(2k-1)$-spanner with lightness $O(\varepsilon^{-1} n^{1/k})$. This bound is optimal up to its dependence on $\varepsilon$; the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Greg Bodwin , Jeremy Flics

The restoration lemma by Afek, Bremler-Barr, Kaplan, Cohen, and Merritt [Dist. Comp. '02] proves that, in an undirected unweighted graph, any replacement shortest path avoiding a failing edge can be expressed as the concatenation of two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Greg Bodwin , Merav Parter

An \emph{additive $+\beta$ spanner} of a graph $G$ is a subgraph which preserves distances up to an additive $+\beta$ error. Additive spanners are well-studied in unweighted graphs but have only recently received attention in weighted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Reyan Ahmed , Greg Bodwin , Keaton Hamm , Stephen Kobourov , Richard Spence

We study the fault-tolerance of networks from both the structural and computational point of view using the minimum leaf number of the corresponding graph $G$, i.e. the minimum number of leaves of the spanning trees of $G$, and its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Jan Goedgebeur , Jarne Renders , Gábor Wiener , Carol T. Zamfirescu

In this paper we address the problem of computing a sparse subgraph of a weighted directed graph such that the exact distances from a designated source vertex to all other vertices are preserved under bounded weight increment. Finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das

We consider the probability model of edge-fault tolerance of a network in the sense of connectivity with link faults. Using graph-theoretical notation, we define the edge-fault (EF) and Menger-type edge-fault (MEF) tolerances of a graph as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Huanshen Jia , Jianguo Qian

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

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hung Le , Shay Solomon

Recent work has pinned down the existentially optimal size bounds for vertex fault-tolerant spanners: for any positive integer $k$, every $n$-node graph has a $(2k-1)$-spanner on $O(f^{1-1/k} n^{1+1/k})$ edges resilient to $f$ vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Greg Bodwin , Michael Dinitz , Caleb Robelle

We revisit the problem of fault-tolerant (FT) distance preservers, when failure events in the network admit a form of correlation modeled as color faults. FT distance preservers are sparse subgraphs that preserve distances between specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Merav Parter , Asaf Petruschka

An $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner of a weighted graph $G=(V,E)$, is a subgraph $H$ such that for every $u,v\in V$, $d_G(u,v) \le d_H(u,v)\le\alpha\cdot d_G(u,v)+\beta$. The main parameters of interest for spanners are their size (number of edges)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yuval Gitlitz , Ofer Neiman , Richard Spence

In this paper, we consider the question of computing sparse subgraphs for any input directed graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, that preserves reachability and/or strong connectivity structures. We show $O(n+\min\{|{\cal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Diptarka Chakraborty , Keerti Choudhary

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

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 spanner is a sparse subgraph that approximately preserves the pairwise distances of the original graph. It is well known that there is a smooth tradeoff between the sparsity of a spanner and the quality of its approximation, so long as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Amir Abboud , Greg Bodwin

In their seminal paper, Alth\"{o}fer et al. (DCG 1993) introduced the {\em greedy spanner} and showed that, for any weighted planar graph $G$, the weight of the greedy $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner is at most $(1+\frac{2}{\epsilon}) \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Hung Le , Shay Solomon , Cuong Than , Csaba D. Tóth , Tianyi Zhang

In this paper, we study weakly dynamic undirected graphs, that can be used to represent some logistic networks. The goal is to deliver all the delivery points in the network. The network exists in a mostly stable environment, except for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Moustafa Nakechbandi , Jean-Yves Colin , Hervé Mathieu