Fast Dynamic Transitive Closure with Lookahead

Piotr Sankowski, Marcin Mucha

Abstract: In this paper we consider the problem of dynamic transitive closure with lookahead. We present a randomized one-sided error algorithm with updates and queries in O(n ω(1,1,ε)−ε) time given a lookahead of n ε operations, where ω(1,1,ε) is the exponent of multiplication of n×n matrix by n×n ε matrix. For ε≤0.294 we obtain an algorithm with queries and updates in O(n 2−ε) time, whereas for ε=1 the time is O(n ω−1). This is essentially optimal as it implies an O(n ω) algorithm for boolean matrix multiplication. We also consider the offline transitive closure in planar graphs. For this problem, we show an algorithm that requires \(O(n^{\frac{\omega}{2}})\) time to process \(n^{\frac{1}{2}}\) operations. We also show a modification of these algorithms that gives faster amortized queries. Finally, we give faster algorithms for restricted type of updates, so called element updates. All of the presented algorithms are randomized with one-sided error.