On symbolic OBDD-based algorithms for the minimum spanning tree problem

  • Authors:
  • Beate Bollig

  • Affiliations:
  • LS2 Informatik, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • COCOA'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Combinatorial optimization and applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The minimum spanning tree problem is one of the most fundamental algorithmic graph problems and OBDDs are a very common dynamic data structure for Boolean functions. Since in some applications graphs become larger and larger, a research branch has emerged which is concerned with the design and analysis of so-called symbolic algorithms for classical graph problems on OBDD-represented graph instances. Here, a symbolic minimum spanning tree algorithm using O(log3 |V|) functional operations is presented, where V is the set of vertices of the input graph. Furthermore, answering an open problem posed by Sawitzki (2006) it is shown that every symbolic OBDD-based algorithm for the minimum spanning tree problem needs exponential space (with respect to the OBDD size of the input graph). This result even holds for planar input graphs.