Process edges in decreasing weight and delete an edge whenever the remaining graph stays connected. Previously retained heavier edges are bridges in a graph and remain so under deletion. Thus a deletable edge is heaviest on a current graph cycle, and the minimum spanning tree cycle property excludes it from every minimum spanning tree. At termination the surviving connected graph has no graph cycle, so it is a minimum spanning tree.
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The Reverse-Delete algorithm is a graph algorithm used to find the minimum spanning tree (MST) of a connected and undirected graph. It is based on the concept of deleting edges and checking connectivity, which is a complement to the more commonly known Prim's and Kruskal's algorithms for finding MSTs. ### How the Reverse-Delete Algorithm Works: 1. **Initialization**: Start with the original graph, consisting of vertices and edges.