David Eppstein – Publications

Publications with Jeff Westbrook

• Maintenance of a minimum spanning forest in a dynamic plane graph.
  D. Eppstein, G.F. Italiano, R. Tamassia, R.E. Tarjan, J. Westbrook, and M. Yung.
  1st ACM-SIAM Symp. Discrete Algorithms, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 1–11.
  J. Algorithms 13 (1): 33–54, 1992 (special issue for 1st Symp. Discrete Algorithms).
  Corrigendum, J. Algorithms 15: 173, 1993.

  The complement of a minimum spanning tree is a maximum spanning tree in the dual graph. By applying this fact we can use a modified form of Sleator and Tarjan's dynamic tree data structure to update the MST in logarithmic time per update.