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On Steiner's network problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

J. M. Hammersley
J. M. Hammersley
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Institute of Statistics, Oxford
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Let S be a point set of the Euclidean plane, such that

(i) S is bounded,

(ii) the closure of S has unit Lebesgue measure.

Let P be an arbitrary set of n points contained in S, and let l(P) denote the total length of the shortest system of lines connecting the points of P together. Define ln to be the supremum of l(P), taken over all sets P of n points in S. Beardwood, Halton, and Hammersley [1[ proved that there exists an absolute constant α, independent of S, such that

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , December 1961 , pp. 131 - 132
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Copyright © University College London 1961

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