• 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