Finding the shortest bottleneck edge in a parametric minimum spanning tree

  • Authors:
  • Timothy M. Chan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SODA '05 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The result. Parametric optimization problems that concern graphs with continuously changing edge weights have been explored by numerous researchers, with motivation ranging from sensitivity analysis to mobile-data applications. For instance, Dey [5] has shown that for an undirected graph with n vertices and m edges where the edge weights are linear functions in one parameter ("time"), the minimum spanning tree (MST) can undergo at most O(mn1/3) changes (edge swaps). Agarwal et al. [1] have given data structures to maintain the MST over time, with a cost of O(n2/3 polylog n) per change. Fernandez-Baca et al. [7] have given an algorithm to compute all changes to the MST in O(mn log n) total time.