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Improved Spanning Ratio for Low Degree Plane Spanners

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We describe an algorithm that builds a plane spanner with a maximum degree of 8 and a spanning ratio of \({\approx }4.414\) with respect to the complete graph. This is the best currently known spanning ratio for a plane spanner with a maximum degree of less than 14.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Prosenjit Bose, Darryl Hill & Michiel Smid

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This work was partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Cananda (NSERC) and by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).

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Bose, P., Hill, D. & Smid, M. Improved Spanning Ratio for Low Degree Plane Spanners. Algorithmica 80, 935–976 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-017-0305-5

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