On the parallel complexity of digraph reachability

Samir Khuller; Uzi Vishkin

doi:10.1016/0020-0190(94)00153-7

On the parallel complexity of digraph reachability

Samir Khuller^*, Uzi Vishkin

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer Science

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Abstract

We formally show that the directed graph reachability problem can be reduced to several problems using a linear number of processors; hence an efficient parallel algorithm to solve any of these problems would imply an efficient parallel algorithm for the directed graph reachability problem. This formally establishes that all these problems are at least as hard as the s-t reachability problem.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	239-241
Number of pages	3
Journal	Information Processing Letters
Volume	52
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0190(94)00153-7
State	Published - Dec 9 1994

Keywords

Combinatorial problems
Parallel algorithms

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Theoretical Computer Science
Signal Processing
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications

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