Algebraic spans

  • Authors:
  • Maurice Herlihy;Sergio Rajsbaum

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Brown University, Providence RI 02912. Email: herlihy@cs.brown.edu;Instituto de Matemáticas, U.N.A.M., Ciudad Universitaria, D.F. 04510, México. Email: rajsbaum@math.unam.mx

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Topological methods have yielded a variety of lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing. In this paper, we introduce a new tool for proving impossibility results, which is based on a core theorem of algebraic topology, the acyclic carrier theorem, and unifies, generalizes and extends earlier results.