A Fully Polynomial Approximation Scheme for the Euclidean Steiner Augmentation Problem

J. Scott Provan, Department of Operations Research, University of North Carolina

Abstract

Euclidean Steiner Augmentation Problem has as input a connected set of straight line segments drawn in the Euclidean plane, and has as output the smallest set straight line segments, in terms of total Euclidean length, whose addition will make the resulting set 2-edge connected.  A fully polynomial approximation scheme is given for this problem.  Several extensions and variants are also discussed.