Spanning Tree Enumeration in 2-trees: Sequential and Parallel Perspective
For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal creates at least two components. A vertex separator $S$ is minimal if it contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator is a minimal vertex separator of least cardinality. A {\em clique} is a...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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18-08-2014
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| Summary: | For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal
creates at least two components. A vertex separator $S$ is minimal if it
contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator
is a minimal vertex separator of least cardinality. A {\em clique} is a set of
mutually adjacent vertices. A 2-tree is a connected graph in which every
maximal clique is of size three and every minimal vertex separator is of size
two. A spanning tree of a graph $G$ is a connected and an acyclic subgraph of
$G$. In this paper, we focus our attention on two enumeration problems, both
from sequential and parallel perspective. In particular, we consider listing
all possible spanning trees of a 2-tree and listing all perfect elimination
orderings of a chordal graph. As far as enumeration of spanning trees is
concerned, our approach is incremental in nature and towards this end, we work
with the construction order of the 2-tree, i.e. enumeration of $n$-vertex trees
are from $n-1$ vertex trees, $n \geq 4$. Further, we also present a parallel
algorithm for spanning tree enumeration using $O(2^n)$ processors. To our
knowledge, this paper makes the first attempt in designing a parallel algorithm
for this problem. We conclude this paper by presenting a sequential and
parallel algorithm for enumerating all Perfect Elimination Orderings of a
chordal graph. |
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| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1408.3977 |