Sensitivity analysis of minimum spanning trees in sub-inverse-ackermann time

  • Authors:
  • Seth Pettie

  • Affiliations:
  • Max Planck Institut für Informatik

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a deterministic algorithm for computing the sensitivity of a minimum spanning tree or shortest path tree in O(m log α(m,n)) time, where α is the inverse-Ackermann function. This improves upon a long standing bound of O(mα(m,n)) established by Tarjan. Our algorithms are based on an efficient split-findmin data structure, which maintains a collection of sequences of weighted elements that may be split into smaller subsequences. As far as we are aware, our split-findmin algorithm is the first with superlinear but sub-inverse-Ackermann complexity.