Low-diameter graph decomposition is in NC

  • Baruch Awerbuch
  • , Bonnie Berger
  • , Lenore Cowen
  • , David Peleg

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Abstract

We obtain the first deterministic NC algorithm for the lowdiameter graph decomposition problem on arbitrary graphs. We achieve this through derandomizing an algorithm of Linial and Saks. Our algorithm runs in O(log5(n)) time and uses O(n2) processors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithm Theory – SWAT 1992 - 3rd Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Proceedings
EditorsOtto Nurmi, Esko Ukkonen
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages83-93
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783540557067
DOIs
StatePublished - 1992
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 1992 - Helsinki, Finland
Duration: 8 Jul 199210 Jul 1992

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume621 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 1992
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityHelsinki
Period8/07/9210/07/92

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1992.

Funding

In this paper, we achieve the first polylogarithmic-time deterministic parallel algorithm for (X, d)-decomposition. The algorithm decomposes an arbitrary graph * Supported by Air Force Contract TNDGAFOSR-86-0078, ARO contract DAAL03-86-K-0171, NSF contract CCR8611442, DARPA contract N00014-89-J-1988, and a special grant from IBM. ** Supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. *~ Supported in part by DARPA contracts N00014-87-K-0825 and N00014-89-J-1988, Air Force Contract OSR-89-02171, Army Contract DAAL-03-86-K-0171 and Navy-ONR Contract N00014-19-J-1698 I Supported in part by an Allon Fellowship, by a Bantrell Fellowship and by a Waiter and Elise Haas Career Development Award.

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationCCR8611442
Army Research OfficeDAAL-03-86-K-0171
Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyN00014-89-J-1988
International Business Machines CorporationN00014-19-J-1698, N00014-87-K-0825, OSR-89-02171
Air Force Institute of TechnologyTNDGAFOSR-86-0078

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