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Weak symmetry breaking and abstract simplex paths

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2019-02-20 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Motivated by questions in theoretical distributed computing, we develop the combinatorial theory of abstract simplex path subdivisions. Our main application is a short and structural proof of the theorem of Castaneda and Rajsbaum. This theorem in turn implies the solvability of the weak symmetry breaking task in the immediate snapshot wait-free model in the case when the number of processes is not a power of a prime number.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1311.7289,
  title  = {Weak symmetry breaking and abstract simplex paths},
  author = {Dmitry N. Kozlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7289},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

revised version, 30 pages To appear in Mathematical Structures in Computer Science

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