An &Ohgr;(n2 log n) lower bound to the shortest paths problem

  • Authors:
  • Andrew C. Yao;David M. Avis;Ronald L. Rivest

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '77 Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

Let P be a polyhedron with fs s-dimensional faces. We show that &Ohgr;(log fs) linear comparisons are needed to determine if a point lies in P. This is used to establish an &Ohgr;(n2 log n) lower bound to the all-pairs shortest path problem between n points.