Drawing a tree as a minimum spanning tree approximation

  • Authors:
  • Emilio Di Giacomo;Walter Didimo;Giuseppe Liotta;Henk Meijer

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e dellInformazione, Universití degli Studi di Perugia, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e dellInformazione, Universití degli Studi di Perugia, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e dellInformazione, Universití degli Studi di Perugia, Italy;Roosevelt Academy, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce and study (1+@e)-EMST drawings, i.e., planar straight-line drawings of trees such that, for any fixed @e0, the distance between any two vertices is at least 11+@e the length of the longest edge in the path connecting them. (1+@e)-EMST drawings are good approximations of Euclidean minimum spanning trees. While it is known that only trees with bounded degree have a Euclidean minimum spanning tree realization, we show that every tree T has a (1+@e)-EMST drawing for any given @e0. We also present drawing algorithms that compute (1+@e)-EMST drawings of trees with bounded degree in polynomial area. As a byproduct of one of our techniques, we improve the best known area upper bound for Euclidean minimum spanning tree realizations of complete binary trees.