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Cost allocation for steiner trees

Nimrod Megiddo
- 01 Mar 1978 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 1, pp 1-6
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A set of points, called consumers, and another point called central supplier, are located in a Euclidean plane and the cost of constructing a connection between two points is proportional to the distance between them.
Abstract
A set of points, called consumers, and another point called central supplier, are located in a Euclidean plane. The cost of constructing a connection between two points is proportional to the distance between them. The minimum cost required for connecting all the consumers to the supplier is given by a minimal Steiner tree. An example is given in which for every allocation of the total cost of the tree to the consumers, a coalition of consumers exists, which is charged more than the cost required for connecting its members to the central supplier.

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Steiner Minimal Trees

TL;DR: A Steiner minimal tree for given points in the plane is a tree which interconnects these points using lines of shortest possible total length as mentioned in this paper, where the length of the shortest possible line is chosen.
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On the Problem of Steiner

TL;DR: The Steiner point of T as discussed by the authors is the unique vertex of a triangle whose interior does not overlap with the vertices of T, and it can be found by the following simple construction: let a12 be the third vertex of the equilateral triangle whose other two vertices are a1 and a2, and let C be the circle through a1, a2 a12; then p is the intersection of C and the straight segment a12a3.
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Cost allocation for a spanning tree

TL;DR: The problem of allocating cost in a spanning tree network is considered and methods are suggested that are preferred given different emphases among the criteria for such a function.