Generalized Maxwell formula for the length of a minimal tree with a given topology

DOI10.3103/S0027132210030022MaRDI QIDQ2513136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. O. Ivanov, A. A. Tuzhilin

Publication date 2 February 2015

Published in Moscow University Mathematics Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2117

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25)

Abstract: The classic Maxwell formula calculates the length of a planar locally minimal binary tree in terms of coordinates of its boundary vertices and directions of incoming edges. However, if an extreme tree with a given topology and a boundary has degenerate edges, then the classic Maxwell formula cannot be applied directly, to calculate the length of the extreme tree in this case it is necessary to know which edges are degenerate. In this paper we generalize the Maxwell formula to arbitrary extreme trees in a Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension. Now to calculate the length of such a tree, there is no need to know either what edges are degenerate, or the directions of nondegenerate boundary edges. The answer is the maximum of some special linear function on the corresponding compact convex subset of the Euclidean space coinciding with the intersection of some cylinders.

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