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Efficient Shortest Paths in Scale-Free Networks with Underlying Hyperbolic Geometry

Authors Thomas Bläsius, Cedric Freiberger, Tobias Friedrich, Maximilian Katzmann, Felix Montenegro-Retana, Marianne Thieffry



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Thomas Bläsius
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Cedric Freiberger
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Tobias Friedrich
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Maximilian Katzmann
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Felix Montenegro-Retana
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Marianne Thieffry
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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Thomas Bläsius, Cedric Freiberger, Tobias Friedrich, Maximilian Katzmann, Felix Montenegro-Retana, and Marianne Thieffry. Efficient Shortest Paths in Scale-Free Networks with Underlying Hyperbolic Geometry. In 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 107, pp. 20:1-20:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.20

Abstract

A common way to accelerate shortest path algorithms on graphs is the use of a bidirectional search, which simultaneously explores the graph from the start and the destination. It has been observed recently that this strategy performs particularly well on scale-free real-world networks. Such networks typically have a heterogeneous degree distribution (e.g., a power-law distribution) and high clustering (i.e., vertices with a common neighbor are likely to be connected themselves). These two properties can be obtained by assuming an underlying hyperbolic geometry. To explain the observed behavior of the bidirectional search, we analyze its running time on hyperbolic random graphs and prove that it is {O~}(n^{2 - 1/alpha} + n^{1/(2 alpha)} + delta_{max}) with high probability, where alpha in (0.5, 1) controls the power-law exponent of the degree distribution, and delta_{max} is the maximum degree. This bound is sublinear, improving the obvious worst-case linear bound. Although our analysis depends on the underlying geometry, the algorithm itself is oblivious to it.

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  • Theory of computation → Shortest paths
  • Theory of computation → Random network models
  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
Keywords
  • random graphs
  • hyperbolic geometry
  • scale-free networks
  • bidirectional shortest path

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