Distributed Edge Coloring in Time Polylogarithmic in Δ

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Abstract: We provide new deterministic algorithms for the edge coloring problem, which is one of the classic and highly studied distributed local symmetry breaking problems. As our main result, we show that a (2Delta−1)-edge coloring can be computed in time mathrmpolylogDelta+O(log∗n) in the LOCAL model. This improves a result of Balliu, Kuhn, and Olivetti [PODC '20], who gave an algorithm with a quasi-polylogarithmic dependency on Delta. We further show that in the CONGEST model, an (8+varepsilon)Delta-edge coloring can be computed in mathrmpolylogDelta+O(log∗n) rounds. The best previous O(Delta)-edge coloring algorithm that can be implemented in the CONGEST model is by Barenboim and Elkin [PODC '11] and it computes a 2O(1/varepsilon)Delta-edge coloring in time O(Deltavarepsilon+log∗n) for any varepsilonin(0,1].













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