A simple proof of the planar rectilinear Steiner ratio

Autor: Jeffrey S. Salowe
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Operations Research Letters. 12:271-274
ISSN: 0167-6377
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6377(92)90053-6
Popis: The rectilinear Steiner ratio is the worst-case ratio of the length of a rectilinear minimum spanning tree to the length of a minimal tree. Hwang proved that the ratio for point sets in the plane is 3/2. We provide a simple proof of the 3/2-bound.
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