Symmetry breaking depending on the chromatic number or the neighborhood growth

  • Authors:
  • Johannes Schneider;Michael Elkin;Roger Wattenhofer

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Eng. and Networks Lab., 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel;Computer Eng. and Networks Lab., 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We deterministically compute a @D+1 coloring and a maximal independent set(MIS) in time O(@D^1^/^2^+^@Q^(^1^/^h^)+log^*n) for @D"1"+"i@?@D^1^+^i^/^h, where @D"j is defined as the maximal number of nodes within distance j for a node and @D:=@D"1. Our greedy coloring and MIS algorithms improve the state-of-the-art algorithms running in O(@D+log^*n) for a large class of graphs, i.e., graphs of (moderate) neighborhood growth with h=36. We also state and analyze a randomized coloring algorithm in terms of the chromatic number, the run time and the used colors. Our algorithm runs in time O(log@g+log^*n) for @D@?@W(log^1^+^1^/^l^o^g^^^*^nn) and @g@?O(@D/log^1^+^1^/^l^o^g^^^*^nn). For graphs of polylogarithmic chromatic number the analysis reveals an exponential gap compared to the fastest @D+1 coloring algorithm running in time O(log@D+logn). The algorithm works without knowledge of @g and uses less than @D colors, i.e., (1-1/O(@g))@D with high probability. To the best of our knowledge this is the first distributed algorithm for (such) general graphs taking the chromatic number @g into account. We also improve on the state of the art deterministic computation of (2,c)-ruling sets.