Minimum Edge Ranking Spanning Trees of Threshold Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhisa Makino;Yushi Uno;Toshihide Ibaraki

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Given a graph G, the minimum edge ranking spanning tree problem (MERST) is to find a spanning tree of G whose edge ranking is minimum. However, this problem is known to be NP-hard for general graphs. In this paper, we show that the problem MERST has a polynomial time algorithm for threshold graphs, which have useful applications in practice. The result is also significant in the sense that this is a first non-trivial graph class for which the problem MERST is found to be polynomially solvable.