Kruskal - Family of functions

• pgr_kruskal

• pgr_kruskalBFS

• pgr_kruskalDD

• pgr_kruskalDFS

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Description

Kruskal’s algorithm is a greedy minimum spanning tree algorithm that in each cycle finds and adds the edge of the least possible weight that connects any two trees in the forest.

The main Characteristics are:

• It’s implementation is only on undirected graph.

• Process is done only on edges with positive costs.

• When the graph is connected

  • The resulting edges make up a tree

• When the graph is not connected,

  • Finds a minimum spanning tree for each connected component.

  • The resulting edges make up a forest.

• The total weight of all the edges in the tree or forest is minimized.

• Kruskal’s running time: \(O(E * log E)\)

Inner Queries

Column	Type	Default	Description
id	ANY-INTEGER		Identifier of the edge.
source	ANY-INTEGER		Identifier of the first end point vertex of the edge.
target	ANY-INTEGER		Identifier of the second end point vertex of the edge.
cost	ANY-NUMERICAL		Weight of the edge (source, target)
reverse_cost	ANY-NUMERICAL	-1	Weight of the edge (target, source) When negative: edge (target, source) does not exist, therefore it’s not part of the graph.

Where:

ANY-INTEGER:

SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT

ANY-NUMERICAL:

SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, REAL, FLOAT

See Also

• Spanning Tree - Category

• Boost: Kruskal’s algorithm

• Wikipedia: Kruskal’s algorithm

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