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arxiv: 1402.2552 · v1 · pith:ZQO4OJ3Tnew · submitted 2014-02-11 · 💻 cs.DC

Linial's Lower Bound Made Easy

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keywords linialalgorithmboundcolouringcommunicationcycledeterministicdistributed
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Linial's seminal result shows that any deterministic distributed algorithm that finds a $3$-colouring of an $n$-cycle requires at least $\log^*(n)/2 - 1$ communication rounds. We give a new simpler proof of this theorem.

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