A Hierarchy of Lower Bounds for Sublinear Additive Spanners
A Hierarchy of Lower Bounds for Sublinear Additive Spanners
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次线性加法扳手下界的层次结构
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10.1137/1.9781611974782.36
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2017
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通讯作者:
Pettie, Seth
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作者:
Abboud, Amir;Bodwin, Greg;Pettie, Seth
Spanners, emulators, and approximate distance oracles can be viewed aslossycompression schemes that represent an unweighted graph metric in small space, saybits. There is an inherent tradeoff between the sparsity parameterand thestretch functionof the compression scheme, but the qualitative nature of this tradeoff has remained a persistent open problem. It has been known for some time that whenthere are schemes with constantadditivestretch (distanceis stretched to at most), and recent results of Abboud and Bodwin show that whenthere are no such schemes. Thus, to get practically efficient graph compression withwe must pay superconstant additive stretch, but exactly how much do we have to pay? In this paper we show that the lower bound of Abboud and Bodwin is just the first step in ahierarchyof lower bounds that characterize the asymptotic behavior of the optimal stretch functionfor sparsity parameter. Specifically, for any integer, any compression scheme usingbits has asublinear additive stretchfunction:. This lower bound matches Thorup and Zwick's (2006) construction of sublinear additiveemulators. It also shows that Elkin and Peleg's-spanners have an essentially optimal tradeoff between,, and, and that the sublinear additive spanners of Pettie (2009) and Chechik (2013) are not too far from optimal. To complement these lower bounds we present a new construction of-spanners with size, where. This size bound improves on the spanners of Elkin and Peleg (2004), Thorup and Zwick (2006), and Pettie (2009). According to our lower bounds neither the size nor stretch function can be substantially improved. Our lower bound technique exhibits several interesting degrees of freedom in the framework of Abboud and Bodwin. By carefully exploiting these freedoms, we are able to obtain lower bounds for several related combinatorial objects. We get lower bounds on the size of-hopsets, matching Elkin and Neiman's construction (2016), and lower bounds onshortcutting setsfor digraphs that preserve the transitive closure. Our lower bound simplifies Hesse's (2003) refutation of Thorup's conjecture (1992), which stated that adding a linear number of shortcuts suffices to reduce the diameter to polylogarithmic. Finally, we show matching upper and lower bounds for graph compression schemes that work for graph metrics with girth at least. One consequence is that Baswana et al.'s (2010) additive-spanners with sizecannot be improved in the exponent.
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发表时间:
2013
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ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
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作者:
S. Chechik
通讯作者:
S. Chechik
DOI:
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发表时间:
1997
期刊:
J. Algorithms
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1006/jagm.1997.0888
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1997
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J. Algorithms
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Sairam Subramanian
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发表时间:
2005
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International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
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作者:
L. Roditty;M. Thorup;Uri Zwick
通讯作者:
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