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Constant Arboricity Spectral Sparsifiers

Data Structures and Algorithms 2018-08-20 v1

Abstract

We show that every graph is spectrally similar to the union of a constant number of forests. Moreover, we show that Spielman-Srivastava sparsifiers are the union of O(logn) forests. This result can be used to estimate boundaries of small subsets of vertices in nearly optimal query time.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.05662,
  title  = {Constant Arboricity Spectral Sparsifiers},
  author = {Timothy Chu and Michael B. Cohen and Jakub W. Pachocki and Richard Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05662},
  year   = {2018}
}
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