The power-pSteiner tree problem

  • Authors:
  • Joseph L. Ganley;Jeffrey S. Salowe

  • Affiliations:
  • Cadence Design Systems, Inc., 555 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, California;Cadence Design Systems, Inc., 555 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, California

  • Venue:
  • Nordic Journal of Computing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper introduces the power-p Steiner tree problem, which is to find a geometric Steiner tree that minimizes the sum of the edge lengths each raised to the p power. A number of results are presented on computing optimal and approximate power-p Steiner trees. Specifically, a linear-time numerical algorithm is presented for computing optimal Euclidean power-2 Steiner trees with respect to a given topology, and the algorithm is proved to be numerically stable. It is conjectured, and strong evidence given, that the power-p Steiner tree problem is not finitely solvable for p ≥ 5. Finally, bounds are given on the power-p Steiner ratio, which measures the quality of a minimum spanning tree as an approximation of an optimal power-p Steiner tree.