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A planar graph and its minimum spanning tree. Each edge is labeled with its weight, which here is roughly proportional to its length. A minimum spanning tree (MST) or minimum weight spanning tree is a subset of the edges of a connected, edge-weighted undirected graph that connects all the vertices together, without any cycles and with the minimum possible total edge weight. [1]
The key insight to the algorithm is a random sampling step which partitions a graph into two subgraphs by randomly selecting edges to include in each subgraph. The algorithm recursively finds the minimum spanning forest of the first subproblem and uses the solution in conjunction with a linear time verification algorithm to discard edges in the graph that cannot be in the minimum spanning tree.
A Euclidean minimum spanning tree, for a set of points in the Euclidean plane or Euclidean space, is a system of line segments, having only the given points as their endpoints, whose union includes all of the points in a connected set, and which has the minimum possible total length of any such system.
If is edge-unweighted every spanning tree possesses the same number of edges and thus the same weight. In the edge-weighted case, the spanning tree, the sum of the weights of the edges of which is lowest among all spanning trees of , is called a minimum spanning tree (MST). It is not necessarily unique.
The quality of the tree is measured in the same way as in a graph, using the Euclidean distance between pairs of points as the weight for each edge. Thus, for instance, a Euclidean minimum spanning tree is the same as a graph minimum spanning tree in a complete graph with Euclidean edge weights.
Let Y 1 be a minimum spanning tree of graph P. If Y 1 =Y then Y is a minimum spanning tree. Otherwise, let e be the first edge added during the construction of tree Y that is not in tree Y 1, and V be the set of vertices connected by the edges added before edge e. Then one endpoint of edge e is in set V and the other is not. Since tree Y 1 is a ...
M. Haque, Md. R. Uddin, and Md. A. Kashem (2007) found a linear time algorithm that can find the minimum degree spanning tree of series-parallel graphs with small degrees. [2] G. Yao, D. Zhu, H. Li, and S. Ma (2008) found a polynomial time algorithm that can find the minimum degree spanning tree of directed acyclic graphs. [3]
Kruskal's algorithm [1] finds a minimum spanning forest of an undirected edge-weighted graph.If the graph is connected, it finds a minimum spanning tree.It is a greedy algorithm that in each step adds to the forest the lowest-weight edge that will not form a cycle. [2]