Boolean matrix multiplication and transitive closure

  • Authors:
  • M. J. Fischer;A. R. Meyer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '71 Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory (swat 1971)
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

Arithmetic operations on matrices are applied to the problem of finding the transitive closure of a Boolean matrix. The best transitive closure algorithm known, due to Munro, is based on the matrix multiplication method of Strassen. We show that his method requires at most O(nα ċ P(n)) bitwise operations, where α = log27 and P(n) bounds the number of bitwise operations needed for arithmetic modulo n+1. The problems of computing the transitive closure and of computing the "and-or" product of Boolean matrices are shown to be of the same order of difficulty. A transitive closure method based on matrix inverse is presented which can be used to derive Munro's method.