Testing st -Connectivity
Testing st -Connectivity
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测试连接性
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-74208-1_28
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2007
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I. Newman
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作者:
Sourav Chakraborty;E. Fischer;Oded Lachish;A. Matsliah;I. Newman
We continue the study, started in [9], of property testing of graphs in the orientation model. A major question which was left open in [9] is whether the property ofst-connectivity can be tested with a constant number of queries. Here we answer this question on the affirmative. To this end we construct a non-trivial reduction of thest-connectivity problem to the problem of testing languages that are decidable by branching programs, which was solved in [11]. The reduction combines combinatorial arguments with a concentration type lemma that is proven for this purpose. Unlike many other property testing results, here the resulting testing algorithm is highly non-trivial itself, and not only its analysis.