Spanning cactus and spanning cactus extension of outerplanar graphs
摘要
Minimum spanning cactus and minimum spanning cactus extension problems on outerplanar graphs are studied. Linear algorithms are presented for both problems on outerplanar graphs. A partitioning technique is introduced that partitions a maximal biconnected outerplanar graph into a set of maximal star-outerplanar subgraphs and some chords. Further, the minimum spanning cacti of these star-outerplanar subgraphs can be computed and suitably combined to get a minimum spanning cactus and a minimum spanning cactus extension of a given outerplanar graph.