#### Vol. 7, No. 2, 2014

 Recent Issues
 The Journal About the Journal Editorial Board Editors’ Interests Subscriptions Submission Guidelines Submission Form Policies for Authors Ethics Statement ISSN: 1944-4184 (e-only) ISSN: 1944-4176 (print) Author Index Coming Soon Other MSP Journals
Spanning tree congestion of planar graphs

### Hiu Fai Law, Siu Lam Leung and Mikhail I. Ostrovskii

Vol. 7 (2014), No. 2, 205–226
##### Abstract

This paper is devoted to estimates of the spanning tree congestion for some planar graphs. We present three main results: (1) We almost determined (up to $±1$) the maximal possible spanning tree congestion for planar graphs. (2) The value of congestion indicator introduced by Ostrovskii [Discrete Math. 310, 1204–1209] can be very far from the value of the spanning tree congestion. (3) We find some more examples in which the congestion indicator can be used to find the exact value of the spanning tree congestion.

##### Keywords
dual graph, dual spanning tree, minimum congestion spanning tree, planar graph
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 05C05
Secondary: 05C10, 05C35
##### Milestones
Received: 19 March 2013
Revised: 2 July 2013
Accepted: 3 July 2013
Published: 16 November 2013

Communicated by Joseph A. Gallian
##### Authors
 Hiu Fai Law Department of Mathematics Universität Hamburg 55 Bunderstrasse D-20146 Hamburg Germany Siu Lam Leung Department of Mathematics and Computer Science St. John’s University 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439 United States Mikhail I. Ostrovskii Department of Mathematics and Computer Science St. John’s University 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439 United States