An ?(n 4/3) lower bound on the randomized complexity of graph properties

COMBINATORICA ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
P�ter Hajnal
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Sarvagya Upadhyay

The area of property testing is concerned with designing methods to decide whether an input object possesses a certain property or not. Usually the problem is described as a promise problem: either the input object has the property or the input object is far from possessing the property. Here, the meaning of object being far from possessing the property is based on a specified and meaningful notion of distance. The main objective of property testing is accomplishing this decision making by developing a super efficient tester. A tester that reads through the entire object can easily determine whether the property is satisfied or not. However, one wishes the tester to probe the input at very few random locations and determine whether the property is satisfied. As such, randomness is a necessary ingredient for testing and having the tester erring on few instances is a necessary price to pay for designing highly efficient methodologies. Much of the literature on property testing has focused on two types of objects: functions and graphs. Naturally they form the major portion of the book: functions are discussed from Chapters 2 to 6 and graph properties are discussed from Chapters 8 to 10. The final three chapters focus on distribution testing, probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and locally testable codes, and ramifications of property testing on other related topics in Computer Science and Statistics. A separate chapter is devoted to query lower bound techniques.


2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Scheidweiler ◽  
Eberhard Triesch

2019 ◽  
Vol 485 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
A. A. Zevin

Solutions x(t) of the Lipschitz equation x = f(x) with an arbitrary vector norm are considered. It is proved that the sharp lower bound for the distances between successive extremums of xk(t) equals π/L where L is the Lipschitz constant. For non-constant periodic solutions, the lower bound for the periods is 2π/L. These estimates are achieved for norms that are invariant with respect to permutation of the indices.


10.37236/1188 ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Exoo

For $k \geq 5$, we establish new lower bounds on the Schur numbers $S(k)$ and on the k-color Ramsey numbers of $K_3$.


10.37236/1748 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nagi H. Nahas

The best lower bound known on the crossing number of the complete bipartite graph is : $$cr(K_{m,n}) \geq (1/5)(m)(m-1)\lfloor n/2 \rfloor \lfloor(n-1)/2\rfloor$$ In this paper we prove that: $$cr(K_{m,n}) \geq (1/5)m(m-1)\lfloor n/2 \rfloor \lfloor (n-1)/2 \rfloor + 9.9 \times 10^{-6} m^2n^2$$ for sufficiently large $m$ and $n$.


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