New Spectral Lower Bounds on the Bisection Width of Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Sergej L. Bezrukov;Robert Elsässer;Burkhard Monien;Robert Preis;Jean-Pierre Tillich

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WG '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The communication overhead is a major bottleneck for the execution of a process graph on a parallel computer system. In the case of two processors, the minimization of the communication can be modeled by the graph bisection problem. The spectral lower bound of λ2|V|/4 for the bisection width of a graph is well-known. The bisection width is equal to λ2|V|/4 iff all vertices are incident to λ2/2 cut edges in every optimal bisection. We discuss the case for which this fact is not satisfied and present a new method to get tighter lower bounds on the bisection width. This method makes use of the level structure defined by the bisection. Under certain conditions we get a lower bound depending on λ2β|V| with 1/2 ≤ β