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This paper concerns the worst case running time of the minimal spanning tree algorithm presented by Bentley and Friedman.
For a set ofN points ink-dimensional Euclidean space the worst case performance of the algorithm is shown to beΘ(N 2 logN), fork≧2 andΘ(N 2), fork=1.
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Olli Nevalainen, Jarmo Ernvall and Jyrki Katajainen,Finding minimal spanning trees in a Euclidean coordinate space, BIT 21 (1981), 46–54.
John Zolnowsky,Topics in Computational Geometry, Stanford University, Ph.D. (1978).
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Katajainen, J. On the worst case of a minimal spanning tree algorithm for euclidean space. BIT 23, 1–8 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01937321
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