DocumentCode
2956032
Title
S-T Connectivity on Digraphs with a Known Stationary Distribution
Author
Chung, Kai-Min ; Reingold, Omer ; Vadhan, Salil
Author_Institution
Harvard Univ., Cambridge
fYear
2007
fDate
13-16 June 2007
Firstpage
236
Lastpage
249
Abstract
We present a deterministic logspace algorithm for solving S-T CONNECTIVITY on directed graphs if (i) we are given a stationary distribution for random walk on the graph and (ii) the random walk which starts at the source vertex s has polynomial mixing time. This result generalizes the recent deterministic logspace algorithm for S-T CONNECTIVITY on undirected graphs [15]. It identifies knowledge of the stationary distribution as the gap between the S-T CONNECTIVITY problems we know how to solve in logspace (L) and those that capture all of randomized logspace (RL).
Keywords
computational complexity; deterministic algorithms; directed graphs; random processes; S-T connectivity; deterministic logspace algorithm; directed graph; polynomial mixing time; random walk algorithm; stationary distribution; Algorithm design and analysis; Circuit simulation; Complexity theory; Computational complexity; Computational modeling; Computer science; Distributed computing; Extraterrestrial measurements; Polynomials; Time measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computational Complexity, 2007. CCC '07. Twenty-Second Annual IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
ISSN
1093-0159
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2780-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CCC.2007.30
Filename
4262767
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