Abstract

We give improved solutions for the problem of generating the k smallest spanning trees in a graph and in the plane. Our algorithm for general graphs takes time O(m log #(m, n)+k 2 ); for planar graphs this bound can be improved to O(n + k 2 ). We also show that the k best spanning trees for a set of points in the plane can be computed in time O(min(k 2 n + n log n, k 2 + kn log(n/k))). The k best orthogonal spanning trees in the plane can be found in time O(n log n + kn log log(n/k)+k 2 ).

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