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The Minimum Spanning Tree Constant in Geometrical Probability and Under the Independent Model; A Unified Approach

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dc.creator Avram, Florin
dc.creator Bertsimas, Dimitris J.
dc.date 2004-05-28T19:27:12Z
dc.date 2004-05-28T19:27:12Z
dc.date 1990-04
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-09T02:38:14Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-09T02:38:14Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-09
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5189
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description Given n uniformly and independently points in the d dimensional cube of unit volume, it is well established that the length of the minimum spanning tree on these n points is asymptotic to /3MsT(d)n(d-l)/d,where the constant PMST(d) depends only on the dimension d. It has been a major open problem to determine the constant 3MST(d). In this paper we obtain an exact expression of the constant MST(d) as a series expansion. Truncating the expansion after a finite number of terms yields a sequence of lower bounds; the first 3 terms give a lower bound which is already very close to the empirically estimated value of the constant. Our proof technique unifies the derivation for the MST asymptotic behavior for the Euclidean and the independent model.
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center
dc.relation Operations Research Center Working Paper;OR 211-90
dc.title The Minimum Spanning Tree Constant in Geometrical Probability and Under the Independent Model; A Unified Approach
dc.type Working Paper


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