Euclidean Bounded-Degree Spanning Tree Ratios

  • Authors:
  • Timothy M. Chan

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Let τK be the worst-case (supremum) ratio of the weight of the minimum degree-K spanning tree to the weight of the minimum spanning tree, over all finite point sets in the Euclidean plane. It is known that τ2 = 2 and τ5 = 1. In STOC ‘94, Khuller, Raghavachari, and Young established the following inequalities: 1.103 3 \le 1.5 and 1.035 4 \le 1.25. We present the first improved upper bounds: τ3 4 K(d) be the analogous ratio in d-dimensional space. Khuller et al. showed thatτ3(d) 3(d)