A Linear-Time Algorithm to Find Four Independent Spanning Trees in Four-Connected Planar Graphs

Given a graph G, a designated vertex r and a natural number k, we wish to find k “independent” spanning trees of G rooted at r, that is, k spanning trees such that, for any vertex v, the k paths connecting r and v in the k trees are internally disjoint in G. In this paper we give a linear-time algorithm to find four independent spanning trees in a 4-connected planar graph rooted at any vertex.