Space bounds for a game on graphs

  • Authors:
  • Wolfgang J. Paul;Robert Endre Tarjan;James R. Celoni

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '76 Proceedings of the eighth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

We study a one-person game played by placing pebbles, according to certain rules, on the vertices of a directed graph. In [3] it was shown that for each graph with n vertices and maximum in-degree d , there is a pebbling strategy which requires at most c(d) n/log n pebbles. Here we show that this bound is tight to within a constant factor. We also analyze a variety of pebbling algorithms, including one which achieves the 0(n/log n) bound.