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Paper   IPM / Computer Science / 10838
School of Computer Science
  Title:   Spanning trees with minimum weighted degrees
  Author(s): 
1.  M. Ghodsi
2.  H. Mahini
3.  K. Mirjalali
4.  S. Oveis Gharan
5.  A. S. Sayedi
6.  M. Zadimoghaddam
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Information Processing Letters
  Year:  2007
  Pages:   113-116
  Publisher(s):   Elsevier
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Given a metric graph G, we are concerned with finding a spanning tree of G where the maximum weighted degree of its vertices is minimum. In a metric graph (or its spanning tree), the weighted degree of a vertex is defined as the sum of the weights of its incident edges. In this paper, we propose a 4.5-approximation algorithm for this problem. We also prove it is NP-hard to approximate this problem within a 2-e factor.

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