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Obviously this problem has many practical applications. Like the MINIMUM SPANNING TREE PROBLEM it also often appears as a subproblem when one deals with more difficult combinatorial optimization problems.

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  1. Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics, University of Bonn, Lennéstr. 2, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Bernhard Korte & Jens Vygen

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Korte, B., Vygen, J. (2012). Shortest Paths. In: Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24488-9_7

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