Steiner minimal trees in Lp2
โ Scribed by Dietmar Cieslik; Johann Linhart
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 463 KB
- Volume
- 155
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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โฆ Synopsis
For a finite set of points in a metric space a Steiner Minimal Tree (SMT) is a shortest tree which interconnects these points. We also consider a relative of this problem allowing at most k additional points in the tree (k-SMT), where k is a given number. We intend to discuss these problems for all planes with p-norm, i.e. the affine plane with norm II (tl, t2)II p = (I tx I ~ + I t2 IP) 1/p for 1 ~< p < oo and Ij(tl,t2)lt~ = max{Itll, It21}. We give a survey of results for the combinatorial structure of SMT and k-SMT and show the consequences for the methods to construct such trees.
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