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On minimum spanning trees for random Euclidean bipartite graphs

Part of: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry Limit theorems Stochastic processes Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Mario Correddu  and
Dario Trevisan
Mario Correddu*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Dario Trevisan
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
*
Corresponding author: Mario Correddu; Email: mario.correddu21@gmail.com
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Abstract

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem on a weighted complete bipartite graph $K_{n_R, n_B}$ whose $n=n_R+n_B$ vertices are random, i.i.d. uniformly distributed points in the unit cube in $d$ dimensions and edge weights are the $p$-th power of their Euclidean distance, with $p\gt 0$. In the large $n$ limit with $n_R/n \to \alpha _R$ and $0\lt \alpha _R\lt 1$, we show that the maximum vertex degree of the tree grows logarithmically, in contrast with the classical, non-bipartite, case, where a uniform bound holds depending on $d$ only. Despite this difference, for $p\lt d$, we are able to prove that the total edge costs normalized by the rate $n^{1-p/d}$ converge to a limiting constant that can be represented as a series of integrals, thus extending a classical result of Avram and Bertsimas to the bipartite case and confirming a conjecture of Riva, Caracciolo and Malatesta.

Keywords

Euclidean functionalsminimum spanning treegeometric probability

MSC classification

Primary: 60D05: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry 05C05: Trees
Secondary: 60G55: Point processes 60F25: $L^p$-limit theorems

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , May 2024 , pp. 319 - 350
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