Minimum weight Euclidean t-spanner is NP-hard

  • Authors:
  • Paz Carmi;Lilach Chaitman-Yerushalmi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Given a set P of points in the plane, an Euclidean t-spanner for P is a geometric graph that preserves the Euclidean distances between every pair of points in P up to a constant factor t. The weight of a geometric graph refers to the total length of its edges. In this paper we show that the problem of deciding whether there exists an Euclidean t-spanner, for a given set of points in the plane, of weight at most w is NP-hard for every real constant t1, both whether planarity of the t-spanner is required or not.