Computing the Gromov hyperbolicity of a discrete metric space

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DOI10.1016/J.IPL.2015.02.002zbMATH Open1328.68301arXiv1210.3323OpenAlexW2115857747MaRDI QIDQ2345853FDOQ2345853


Authors: Hervé Fournier, Anas Ismail, Antoine Vigneron Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 May 2015

Published in: Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give exact and approximation algorithms for computing the Gromov hyperbolicity of an n-point discrete metric space. We observe that computing the Gromov hyperbolicity from a fixed base-point reduces to a (max,min) matrix product. Hence, using the (max,min) matrix product algorithm by Duan and Pettie, the fixed base-point hyperbolicity can be determined in O(n^2.69) time. It follows that the Gromov hyperbolicity can be computed in O(n^3.69) time, and a 2-approximation can be found in O(n^2.69) time. We also give a (2 log_2 n)-approximation algorithm that runs in O(n^2) time, based on a tree-metric embedding by Gromov. We also show that hyperbolicity at a fixed base-point cannot be computed in O(n^2.05) time, unless there exists a faster algorithm for (max,min) matrix multiplication than currently known.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3323




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