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A realisation of a metric $d$ on a finite set $X$ is a weighted graph $(G,w)$ whose vertex set contains $X$ such that the shortest-path distance between elements of $X$ considered as vertices in $G$ is equal to $d$. Such a realisation $(G,w)$ is called optimal if the sum of its edge weights is minimal over all such realisations. Optimal realisations always exist, although it is NP-hard to compute them in general, and they have applications in areas such as phylogenetics, electrical networks and internet tomography. In [Adv. in Math. 53, 1984, 321-402] A.~Dress showed that the optimal realisations of a metric $d$ are closely related to a certain polytopal complex that can be canonically associated to $d$ called its tight-span. Moreover, he conjectured that the (weighted) graph consisting of the zero- and one-dimensional faces of the tight-span of $d$ must always contain an optimal realisation as a homeomorphic subgraph. In this paper, we prove that this conjecture does indeed hold for a certain class of metrics, namely the class of totally=decomposable metrics whose tight-span has dimension two. As a corollary, it follows that the minimum Manhattan network problem is a special case of finding optimal realisations of two-dimensional totally-decomposable metrics.
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