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Sometimes we want light spanning trees with certain special properties. Here’s an example....

Sometimes we want light spanning trees with certain special properties. Here’s an example.

Input: Undirected graph G = (V, E); edge weights we; subset of vertices UV

Output: The lightest spanning tree in which the nodes of U are leaves (there might be other leaves in this tree as well).

(The answer isn’t necessarily a minimum spanning tree.)

Give an algorithm for this problem which runs in O(|E | log |V|) time. (Hint: When you remove nodes U from the optimal solution, what is left?)

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