Load balancing and orientability thresholds for random hypergraphs

  • Authors:
  • Pu Gao;Nicholas C. Wormald

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the forty-second ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Let hw0 be two fixed integers. Let H be a random hypergraph whose hyperedges are all of cardinality h. To w-orient a hyperedge, we assign exactly w of its vertices positive signs with respect to the hyperedge, and the rest negative. A (w,k)-orientation of H consists of a w-orientation of all hyperedges of H, such that each vertex receives at most k positive signs from its incident hyperedges. When k is large enough, we determine the threshold of the existence of a (w,k)-orientation of a random hypergraph. The (w,k)-orientation of hypergraphs is strongly related to a general version of the off-line load balancing problem. The graph case, when h=2 and w=1, was solved recently by Cain, Sanders and Wormald and independently by Fernholz and Ramachandran, thereby settling a conjecture made by Karp and Saks. Motivated by a problem of cuckoo hashing, the special hypergraph case with w=k=1, was solved in three separate preprints dating from October 2009, by Frieze and Melsted, by Fountoulakis and Panagiotou, and by Dietzfelbinger, Goerdt, Mitzenmacher, Montanari, Pagh and Rink.