Completely Independent Spanning Trees in Maximal Planar Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Toru Hasunuma

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • WG '02 Revised Papers from the 28th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Let G be a graph. Let T1, T2, . . . , Tk be spanning trees in G. If for any two vertices u, v in G, the paths from u to v in T1, T2, . . . , Tk are pairwise openly disjoint, then we say that T1, T2, . . . , Tk are completely independent spanning trees in G. In this paper, we show that there are two completely independent spanning trees in any 4-connected maximal planar graph. Our proof induces a linear-time algorithm for finding such trees. Besides, we show that given a graph G, the problem of deciding whether there exist two completely independent spanning trees in G is NP-complete.