Maximum Plane Trees in Multipartite Geometric Graphs

A geometric graph is a graph whose vertices are points in the plane and whose edges are straight-line segments between the points. A plane spanning tree in a geometric graph is a spanning tree that is non-crossing. Let R and B be two disjoint sets of points in the plane such that R ∪ B is in general...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Algorithmica Vol. 81; no. 4; pp. 1512 - 1534
Main Authors: Biniaz, Ahmad, Bose, Prosenjit, Crosbie, Kimberly, De Carufel, Jean-Lou, Eppstein, David, Maheshwari, Anil, Smid, Michiel
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
Algorithms
Apexes
Approximation
Computation
Computer Science
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Data Structures and Information Theory
Decision trees
Ethernet
Graph theory
Mathematical analysis
Mathematics of Computing
Theory of Computation
Trees (mathematics)
Multipartite geometric graphs
Approximation algorithms
Plane spanning trees
Maximum spanning trees
ISSN:0178-4617, 1432-0541
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A geometric graph is a graph whose vertices are points in the plane and whose edges are straight-line segments between the points. A plane spanning tree in a geometric graph is a spanning tree that is non-crossing. Let R and B be two disjoint sets of points in the plane such that R ∪ B is in general position, and let n = | R ∪ B | . Assume that the points of R are colored red and the points of B are colored blue. A bichromatic plane spanning tree is a plane spanning tree in the complete bipartite geometric graph with bipartition ( R ,  B ). In this paper we consider the maximum bichromatic plane spanning tree problem, which is the problem of computing a bichromatic plane spanning tree of maximum total edge length. For the maximum bichromatic plane spanning tree problem, we present an approximation algorithm with ratio 1 / 4 that runs in O ( n log n ) time. We also consider the multicolored version of this problem where the input points are colored with k > 2 colors. We present an approximation algorithm that computes a plane spanning tree in a complete k -partite geometric graph, and whose ratio is 1 / 6 if k = 3 , and 1 / 8 if k ⩾ 4 . We also revisit the special case of the problem where k = n , i.e., the problem of computing a maximum plane spanning tree in a complete geometric graph. For this problem, we present an approximation algorithm with ratio 0.503; this is an extension of the algorithm presented by Dumitrescu and Tóth (Discrete Comput Geom 44(4):727–752, 2010 ) whose ratio is 0.502. For points that are in convex position, the maximum bichromatic plane spanning tree problem can be solved in O ( n 3 ) time. We present an O ( n 5 ) -time algorithm that solves this problem for the case where the red points lie on a line and the blue points lie on one side of the line.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
ISSN:0178-4617
1432-0541
DOI:10.1007/s00453-018-0482-x