1-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional Constraints

In this paper, we study polyhedral properties of two spanning tree problems with additional constraints. In the first problem, it is required to find a tree with a minimum sum of edge weights among all spanning trees with the number of leaves less than or equal to a given value. In the second proble...

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Main Authors: V. A. Bondarenko, A. V. Nikolaev, D. A. Shovgenov
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Published: Yaroslavl State University 2015-08-01
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description In this paper, we study polyhedral properties of two spanning tree problems with additional constraints. In the first problem, it is required to find a tree with a minimum sum of edge weights among all spanning trees with the number of leaves less than or equal to a given value. In the second problem, an additional constraint is the assumption that the degree of all nodes of the spanning tree does not exceed a given value. The recognition versions of both problems are NP-complete. We consider polytopes of these problems and their 1-skeletons. We prove that in both cases it is a NP-complete problem to determine whether the vertices of 1-skeleton are adjacent. Although it is possible to obtain a superpolynomial lower bounds on the clique numbers of these graphs. These values characterize the time complexity in a broad class of algorithms based on linear comparisons. The results indicate a fundamental difference between combinatorial and geometric properties of the considered problems from the classical minimum spanning tree problem.
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spelling doaj-art-0b7e97d34a4b4a2aa0001ad7114bd0862025-08-20T04:00:26ZengYaroslavl State UniversityМоделирование и анализ информационных систем1818-10152313-54172015-08-0122445346310.18255/1818-1015-2015-4-453-4632511-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional ConstraintsV. A. Bondarenko0A. V. Nikolaev1D. A. Shovgenov2P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State UniversityP.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State UniversityP.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State UniversityIn this paper, we study polyhedral properties of two spanning tree problems with additional constraints. In the first problem, it is required to find a tree with a minimum sum of edge weights among all spanning trees with the number of leaves less than or equal to a given value. In the second problem, an additional constraint is the assumption that the degree of all nodes of the spanning tree does not exceed a given value. The recognition versions of both problems are NP-complete. We consider polytopes of these problems and their 1-skeletons. We prove that in both cases it is a NP-complete problem to determine whether the vertices of 1-skeleton are adjacent. Although it is possible to obtain a superpolynomial lower bounds on the clique numbers of these graphs. These values characterize the time complexity in a broad class of algorithms based on linear comparisons. The results indicate a fundamental difference between combinatorial and geometric properties of the considered problems from the classical minimum spanning tree problem.https://www.mais-journal.ru/jour/article/view/265spanning tree1-skeletonclique numbernp-complete problemhamiltonian chain
spellingShingle V. A. Bondarenko
A. V. Nikolaev
D. A. Shovgenov
1-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional Constraints
Моделирование и анализ информационных систем
spanning tree
1-skeleton
clique number
np-complete problem
hamiltonian chain
title 1-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional Constraints
title_full 1-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional Constraints
title_fullStr 1-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional Constraints
title_full_unstemmed 1-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional Constraints
title_short 1-Skeletons of the Spanning Tree Problems with Additional Constraints
title_sort 1 skeletons of the spanning tree problems with additional constraints
topic spanning tree
1-skeleton
clique number
np-complete problem
hamiltonian chain
url https://www.mais-journal.ru/jour/article/view/265
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