Finding an Unknown Acyclic Orientation of a Given Graph
Combinatorics
2009-04-09 v1 Information Theory
math.IT
Abstract
Let c(G) be the smallest number of edges we have to test in order to determine an unknown acyclic orientation of the given graph G in the worst case. For example, if G is the complete graph on n vertices, then c(G) is the smallest number of comparisons needed to sort n numbers. We prove that c(G)\le (1/4+o(1))n^2 for any graph G on n vertices, answering in the affirmative a question of Aigner, Triesch, and Tuza [Discrete Mathematics, 144 (1995) 3-10]. Also, we show that, for every e>0, it is NP-hard to approximate the parameter c(G) within a multiplicative factor 74/73-e.
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@article{arxiv.0904.1229,
title = {Finding an Unknown Acyclic Orientation of a Given Graph},
author = {Oleg Pikhurko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1229},
year = {2009}
}
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