Parity games on graphs with medium tree-width

  • Authors:
  • John Fearnley;Oded Lachish

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK;Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'11 Proceedings of the 36th international conference on Mathematical foundations of computer science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper studies the problem of solving parity games on graphs with bounded tree-width. Previous work by Obdržálek has produced an algorithm that uses nO(k2) time and nO(k2) space, where k is the tree-width of the graph that the game is played on. This paper presents an algorithm that uses nO(k log n) time and O(n + k log n) space. This is the fastest known algorithm for parity games whose tree-width k satisfies (in standard asymptotic notation) k ∈ ω(log n) and k ∈ o(√n/ log n).