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A Hierarchy of Local Decision

Authors Laurent Feuilloley, Pierre Fraigniaud, Juho Hirvonen

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  • Distributed Network Computing
  • Distributed Algorithm
  • Distributed Decision
  • Locality

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Abstract

We extend the notion of distributed decision in the framework of distributed network computing, inspired by recent results on so-called distributed graph automata. We show that, by using distributed decision mechanisms based on the interaction between a prover and a disprover, the size of the certificates distributed to the nodes for certifying a given network property can be drastically reduced. For instance, we prove that minimum spanning tree can be certified with O(log(n))-bit certificates in n-node graphs, with just one interaction between the prover and the disprover, while it is known that certifying MST requires Omega(log^2(n))-bit certificates if only the prover can act. The improvement can even be exponential for some simple graph properties.

For instance, it is known that certifying the existence of a nontrivial automorphism requires Omega(n^2) bits if only the prover can act. We show that there is a protocol with two interactions between the prover and the disprover enabling to certify nontrivial automorphism with O(log(n))- bit certificates. These results are achieved by defining and analysing a local hierarchy of decision which generalizes the classical notions of proof-labelling schemes and locally checkable proofs.

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Laurent Feuilloley, Pierre Fraigniaud, and Juho Hirvonen. A Hierarchy of Local Decision. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 118:1-118:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.118

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Laurent Feuilloley
Pierre Fraigniaud
Juho Hirvonen

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