TY - JOUR
T1 - A parallel algorithmic version of the local lemma
AU - Alon, Noga
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - The Lovasz Local Lemma is a tool that enables one to show that certain events hold with positive, though very small probability. It often yields existence proofs of results without supplying any efficient way of solving the corresponding algorithmic problems. J. Beck recently has found a method for converting some of these existence proofs into efficient algorithmic procedures, at the cost of losing a little in the estimates. His method does not seem to be parallelizable. Here we modify his technique and achieve an algorithmic version that can be parallelized, thus obtaining deterministic NCl algorithms for several interesting algorithmic problems.
AB - The Lovasz Local Lemma is a tool that enables one to show that certain events hold with positive, though very small probability. It often yields existence proofs of results without supplying any efficient way of solving the corresponding algorithmic problems. J. Beck recently has found a method for converting some of these existence proofs into efficient algorithmic procedures, at the cost of losing a little in the estimates. His method does not seem to be parallelizable. Here we modify his technique and achieve an algorithmic version that can be parallelized, thus obtaining deterministic NCl algorithms for several interesting algorithmic problems.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84990668575&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/rsa.3240020403
DO - 10.1002/rsa.3240020403
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AN - SCOPUS:84990668575
VL - 2
SP - 367
EP - 378
JO - Random Structures and Algorithms
JF - Random Structures and Algorithms
SN - 1042-9832
IS - 4
ER -