,
Xiao Zhou
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In this paper, we study the problem of deciding if there is a transformation between two given minimum Steiner trees of an unweighted graph such that each transformation step respects a prescribed reconfiguration rule and results in another minimum Steiner tree of the graph. We consider two reconfiguration rules, both of which exchange a single vertex at a time, and generalize the known reconfiguration problem for shortest paths in an unweighted graph. This generalization implies that our problems under both reconfiguration rules are PSPACE-complete for bipartite graphs. We thus study the problems with respect to graph classes, and give some boundaries between the polynomial-time solvable and PSPACE-complete cases.
@InProceedings{mizuta_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.79,
author = {Mizuta, Haruka and Hatanaka, Tatsuhiko and Ito, Takehiro and Zhou, Xiao},
title = {{Reconfiguration of Minimum Steiner Trees via Vertex Exchanges}},
booktitle = {44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
pages = {79:1--79:11},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-117-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2019},
volume = {138},
editor = {Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.79},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110234},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.79},
annote = {Keywords: Combinatorial reconfiguration, Graph algorithms, Steiner tree}
}