@InProceedings{janson_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.60, author = {Janson, Svante and Sorkin, Gregory B.}, title = {{Successive Minimum Spanning Trees}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2019)}, pages = {60:1--60:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-125-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {145}, editor = {Achlioptas, Dimitris and V\'{e}gh, L\'{a}szl\'{o} A.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.60}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112759}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.60}, annote = {Keywords: miminum spanning tree, second-cheapest structure, inhomogeneous random graph, optimization in random structures, discrete probability, multi-type branching process, functional fixed point, robust optimization, Kruskal’s algorithm} }