Collective Additive Tree Spanners of Bounded Tree-Breadth Graphs with Generalizations and Consequences

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Abstract: In this paper, we study collective additive tree spanners for families of graphs enjoying special Robertson-Seymour's tree-decompositions, and demonstrate interesting consequences of obtained results. We say that a graph G {em admits a system of mu collective additive tree r-spanners} (resp., {em multiplicative tree t-spanners}) if there is a system cT(G) of at most mu spanning trees of G such that for any two vertices x,y of G a spanning tree TincT(G) exists such that dT(x,y)leqdG(x,y)+r (resp., dT(x,y)leqtcdotdG(x,y)). When mu=1 one gets the notion of {em additive tree r-spanner} (resp., {em multiplicative tree t-spanner}). It is known that if a graph G has a multiplicative tree t-spanner, then G admits a Robertson-Seymour's tree-decomposition with bags of radius at most lceilt/2ceil in G. We use this to demonstrate that there is a polynomial time algorithm that, given an n-vertex graph G admitting a multiplicative tree t-spanner, constructs a system of at most log2n collective additive tree O(tlogn)-spanners of G. That is, with a slight increase in the number of trees and in the stretch, one can "turn" a multiplicative tree spanner into a small set of collective additive tree spanners. We extend this result by showing that if a graph G admits a multiplicative t-spanner with tree-width k−1, then G admits a Robertson-Seymour's tree-decomposition each bag of which can be covered with at most k disks of G of radius at most lceilt/2ceil each. This is used to demonstrate that, for every fixed k, there is a polynomial time algorithm that, given an n-vertex graph G admitting a multiplicative t-spanner with tree-width k−1, constructs a system of at most k(1+log2n) collective additive tree O(tlogn)-spanners of G.











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