Imports

Chapter 21 — Minimum Spanning Trees

This is the canonical CLRS fourth-edition chapter guide during the migration period.

Current source

Sections 21.1--21.2 are native fourth-edition sections (growing a minimum spanning tree, and Kruskal and Prim with the nested union-find bridge, incremental costed Kruskal, and executable indexed-queue Prim developments), imported directly from Section 21.1 and Section 21.2. The Kruskal bridge imports the fourth-edition disjoint-set sources (Chapter 19). Declarations retain the legacy CLRS.MST namespace during the compatibility period; the third-edition-numbered imports CLRSLean.Chapter_23 and CLRSLean.Chapter_23.Section_23_* forward to these sources.

Implementation details

The supporting implementation pages remain available outside the main sidebar:

Coverage boundary

The native sections supply the represented fourth-edition minimum-spanning-tree sections (Theorem 21.1 safe-edge characterization and the Kruskal/Prim correctness chains).

See docs/clrs-fourth-edition-map.csv for the section-level mapping and docs/migrations/clrs4.md for compatibility and deprecation policy.