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We present the first nearly-optimal bounds on the consensus time for the well-known synchronous consensus dynamics, specifically 3-Majority and 2-Choices, for an arbitrary number of opinions. In synchronous consensus dynamics, we consider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nobutaka Shimizu , Takeharu Shiraga

We present three voting protocols with unconditional privacy and correctness, without assuming any bound on the number of corrupt participants. All protocols have polynomial complexity and require private channels and a simultaneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Anne Broadbent , Stacey Jeffery , Alain Tapp

The constrained voter model describes the dynamics of opinions in a population of individuals located on a connected graph. Each agent is characterized by her opinion, where the set of opinions is represented by a finite sequence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Nicolas Lanchier , Stylianos Scarlatos

A walk $W$ in edge-colored graphs is called properly colored (PC) if every pair of consecutive edges in $W$ is of different color. We introduce and study five types of PC acyclicity in edge-colored graphs such that graphs of PC acyclicity…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones , Bin Sheng , Magnus Wahlstrom , Anders Yeo

Discontinuous phase transitions are closely linked to tipping points, critical mass effects, and hysteresis, phenomena that have been confirmed empirically and recognized as highly important in social systems. The multistate $q$-voter…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-26 Arkadiusz Lipiecki , Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron

In this paper we study the number of vertex recolorings that an algorithm needs to perform in order to maintain a proper coloring of a graph under insertion and deletion of vertices and edges. We present two algorithms that achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Luis Barba , Jean Cardinal , Matias Korman , Stefan Langerman , André van Renssen , Marcel Roeloffzen , Sander Verdonschot

We present a graph model for a background independent, relational approach to spacetime emergence. The general idea and the graph main features, detailed in [1], are discussed. This is a combinatorial (dynamical) metric graph, colored on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-14 D. Pugliese

We consider the convergence time for solving the binary consensus problem using the interval consensus algorithm proposed by B\' en\' ezit, Thiran and Vetterli (2009). In the binary consensus problem, each node initially holds one of two…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Moez Draief , Milan Vojnovic

A split graph is a graph whose vertex set can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set. A connected graph $G$ is said to be $t$-admissible if admits a special spanning tree in which the distance between any two adjacent vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Fernanda Couto , Diego Amaro Ferraz , Sulamita Klein

A proper edge coloring of a graph $G$ with colors $1,2,\dots,t$ is called a \emph{cyclic interval $t$-coloring} if for each vertex $v$ of $G$ the edges incident to $v$ are colored by consecutive colors, under the condition that color $1$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Armen S. Asratian , Carl Johan Casselgren , Petros A. Petrosyan

Colouring the vertices of a graph $G$ according to certain conditions can be considered as a random experiment and a discrete random variable $X$ can be defined as the number of vertices having a particular colour in the proper colouring of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-06-09 N. K. Sudev , S. Satheesh , K. P. Chithra , Johan Kok

We consider a modified random walk which uses unvisited edges whenever possible, and makes a simple random walk otherwise. We call such a walk an edge-process. We assume there is a rule A, which tells the walk which unvisited edge to use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Petra Berenbrink , Colin Cooper , Tom Friedetzky

The basic idea of voting protocols is that nodes query a sample of other nodes and adjust their own opinion throughout several rounds based on the proportion of the sampled opinions. In the classic model, it is assumed that all nodes have…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Abraham Gutierrez , Sebastian Müller , Stjepan Šebek

A chord diagram refers to a set of chords with distinct endpoints on a circle. The intersection graph of a chord diagram $\cal C$ is defined by substituting the chords of $\cal C$ with vertices and by adding edges between two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Huseyin Acan

In a previous version of this document we misinterpreted the runtime of a part of the described algorithm. Indeed, the runtime is not better than the Grover-Algorithm. We therefor withdraw this work. We present a novel algorithmic approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Michael Epping , Tobias Stollenwerk

Vertex Descent is a local search algorithm which forms the basis of a wide spectrum of tabu search, simulated annealing and hybrid evolutionary algorithms for graph colouring. These algorithms are usually treated as experimental and provide…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-16 David Chalupa

The vertex coloring problem has received a lot of attention in the context of synchronous round-based systems where, at each round, a process can send a message to all its neighbors, and receive a message from each of them. Hence, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Hicham Lakhlef , Michel Raynal , François Taïani

Several recent results from dynamic and sublinear graph coloring are surveyed. This problem is widely studied and has motivating applications like network topology control, constraint satisfaction, and real-time resource scheduling. Graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Noam Benson-Tilsen

A streaming algorithm is considered to be adversarially robust if it provides correct outputs with high probability even when the stream updates are chosen by an adversary who may observe and react to the past outputs of the algorithm. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Manuel Stoeckl

For a simple graph G = (V, E), a coloring of vertices of G using two colors, say red and blue, is called a quasi neighborhood balanced coloring if, for every vertex of the graph, the number of red neighbors and the number of blue neighbors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Maurice Genevieva Almeida