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Localization of Electrical Flows

Data Structures and Algorithms 2017-08-08 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We show that in any graph, the average length of a flow path in an electrical flow between the endpoints of a random edge is O(log2n)O(\log^2 n). This is a consequence of a more general result which shows that the spectral norm of the entrywise absolute value of the transfer impedance matrix of a graph is O(log2n)O(\log^2 n). This result implies a simple oblivious routing scheme based on electrical flows in the case of transitive graphs.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1708.01632,
  title  = {Localization of Electrical Flows},
  author = {Aaron Schild and Satish Rao and Nikhil Srivastava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01632},
  year   = {2017}
}
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