Top "Minimum-spanning-tree" questions

A minimum spanning tree (MST) or minimum weight spanning tree is a spanning tree of a connected, undirected graph with the least possible weight.

What is a minimum spanning forest?

A minimum spanning tree gives the cheapest way an undirected graph. But what is a minimum spanning forest? Is it …

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Real world applications where spanning tree data structure is used

Does anyone of you know any real world applications where spanning tree data structure is used?

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Please explain the relation between Decrease-Key and Extract-Min operations in priority queues

What is the relation between EXTRACT-MIN operation and DECREASE-KEY operations in priority queue? I encountered this in the lecture for …

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How to compute a minimum bottleneck spanning tree in linear time?

We can find a minimum bottleneck spanning tree in O(E log*V) in the worst case by using Kruskal's …

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Find whether a minimum spanning tree contains an edge in linear time?

I have the following problem on my homework: Give an O(n+m) algorithm to find that whether an edge …

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Time complexity of Prim's MST Algorithm

Can someone explain to me why is Prim's Algorithm using adjacent matrix result in a time complexity of O(V2)?

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The fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_spanning_tree I'm looking to benchmark my minimum spanning tree algorithm against the best …

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finding all minimal spanning trees

Possible Duplicate: All minimum spanning trees implementation How can I find all minimum spanning trees in an undirected graph in …

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Prim's MST: Does the start node matter?

I intuitively feel that if one is using Prim's algorithm to find a graph's minimum spanning tree, it doesn't matter …

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