Rectilinear spanning trees versus bounding boxes
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 11 (2004) no. 1
For a set $P\subseteq {\Bbb R}^2$ with $2\leq n=|P| < \infty$ we prove that ${{\rm mst}(P)\over{\rm bb}(P)} \leq{1\over\sqrt{2}}\sqrt{n}+{3\over2}$ where ${\rm mst}(P)$ is the minimum total length of a rectilinear spanning tree for $P$ and ${\rm bb}(P)$ is half the perimeter of the bounding box of $P$. Since the constant ${1\over\sqrt{2}}$ in the above bound is best-possible, this result settles a problem that was mentioned by Brenner and Vygen (Networks 38 (2001), 126-139).
@article{10_37236_1853,
author = {D. Rautenbach},
title = {Rectilinear spanning trees versus bounding boxes},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2004},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
doi = {10.37236/1853},
zbl = {1060.05023},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/1853/}
}
D. Rautenbach. Rectilinear spanning trees versus bounding boxes. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 11 (2004) no. 1. doi: 10.37236/1853
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