The sparsest additive spanner via multiple weighted BFS trees

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DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2020.05.035zbMATH Open1461.68146arXiv1811.01997OpenAlexW2952039123MaRDI QIDQ2201997FDOQ2201997

Ami Paz, Noam Ravid, Keren Censor-Hillel

Publication date: 17 September 2020

Published in: Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Spanners are fundamental graph structures that sparsify graphs at the cost of small stretch. In particular, in recent years, many sequential algorithms constructing additive all-pairs spanners were designed, providing very sparse small-stretch subgraphs. Remarkably, it was then shown that the known (+6)-spanner constructions are essentially the sparsest possible, that is, a larger additive stretch cannot guarantee a sparser spanner, which brought the stretch-sparsity trade-off to its limit. Distributed constructions of spanners are also abundant. However, for additive spanners, while there were algorithms constructing (+2) and (+4)-all-pairs spanners, the sparsest case of (+6)-spanners remained elusive. We remedy this by designing a new sequential algorithm for constructing a (+6)-spanner with the essentially-optimal sparsity of roughly O(n^{4/3}) edges. We then show a distributed implementation of our algorithm, answering an open problem in [Censor-Hillel et al., DISC 2016]. A main ingredient in our distributed algorithm is an efficient construction of multiple weighted BFS trees. A weighted BFS tree is a BFS tree in a weighted graph, that consists of the lightest among all shortest paths from the root to each node. We present a distributed algorithm in the CONGEST model, that constructs multiple weighted BFS trees in |S|+D-1 rounds, where S is the set of sources and D is the diameter of the network graph.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01997




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