Approximation schemes for degree-restricted MST and red-blue separation problem

  • Authors:
  • Sanjeev Arora;Kevin L. Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Yale University, New Haven, CT

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'03 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Automata, languages and programming
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We develop a quasi-polynomial time approximation scheme for the Euclidean version of the Degree-restricted MST by adapting techniques used previously for approximating TSP. Given n points in the plane, d = 2 or 3, and Ɛ 0, the scheme finds an approximation with cost within 1+Ɛ of the lowest cost spanning tree with the property that all nodes have degree at most d. We also develop a polynomial time approximation scheme for the Euclidean version of the Red-Blue Separation Problem.