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Successive minimum spanning trees
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Mathematics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9680-2790
London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Math, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, England.
2022 (English)In: Random structures & algorithms (Print), ISSN 1042-9832, E-ISSN 1098-2418, Vol. 61, no 1, p. 126-172Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In a complete graph Kn with independent uniform(0,1) (or exponential(1)) edge weights, let T1 be the minimum-weight spanning tree (MST), and Tk the MST after deleting the edges of all previous trees. We show that each tree's weight w(Tk) converges in probability to a constant gamma k, with 2k-2k<gamma k<2k+2k, and we conjecture that gamma k=2k-1+o(1). The problem is distinct from Frieze and Johansson's minimum combined weight mu k of k edge-disjoint spanning trees; indeed, mu 2<gamma 1+gamma 2. With an edge of weight w "arriving" at time t=nw, Kruskal's algorithm defines forests Fk(t), initially empty and eventually equal to Tk, each edge added to the first possible Fk(t). Using tools of inhomogeneous random graphs we obtain structural results including that the fraction of vertices in the largest component of Fk(t) converges to some rho k(t). We conjecture that the functions rho k tend to time translations of a single function.

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Wiley John Wiley & Sons, 2022. Vol. 61, no 1, p. 126-172
Keywords [en]
discrete probability, functional fixed point, inhomogeneous random graph, Kruskal's algorithm, minimum spanning tree, multi-type branching process, optimization in random structures, robust optimization, second-cheapest structure
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-484679DOI: 10.1002/rsa.21047ISI: 000697864100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-484679DiVA, id: diva2:1696336
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationAvailable from: 2022-09-16 Created: 2022-09-16 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved

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