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Approximation Algorithms for a Minimum-Diameter Spanning Tree  

신찬수 (한국외국어대학교 정보산업대학 디지털정보공학)
박상민 (한국과학기술원 전산학과)
Abstract
Let P be a set of n points in the plane. A minimum spanning tree(MST) is a spanning tree connecting n points of P such that the sum of lengths of edges of the tree is minimized. A diameter of a tree is the maximum length of paths connecting two points of a spanning tree of P. The problem considered in this paper is to compute the spanning tree whose diameter is minimized over all spanning trees of P. We call such tree a minimum-diameter spanning tree(MDST). The best known previous algorithm[3] finds MDST in $O(n^2)$ time. In this paper, we suggest an approximation algorithm to compute a spanning tree whose diameter is no more than 5/4 times that of MDST, running in O(n$^2$log$^2$n) time. This is the first approximation algorithm on the MDST problem.
Keywords
Geometric algorithm; approximation algorithm; MDST;
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