Deterministic Linear-Time Minimum Spanning Tree Problem

Determine whether there exists a uniform deterministic comparison-based algorithm that, for every connected undirected graph with n vertices and m edges carrying distinct real-valued weights, computes a minimum spanning tree in worst-case O(m) time on a pointer machine, with edge weights accessed only by binary comparisons, in the model of Pettie and Ramachandran (2002).

Source: Seth Pettie, Vijaya Ramachandran, "An Optimal Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm," Journal of the ACM 49(1):16-34, 2002..

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