Maintaining Expander Decompositions via Sparse Cuts

04/05/2022
by   Yiding Hua, et al.
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In this article, we show that the algorithm of maintaining expander decompositions in graphs undergoing edge deletions directly by removing sparse cuts repeatedly can be made efficient. Formally, for an m-edge undirected graph G, we say a cut (S, S̅) is ϕ-sparse if |E_G(S, S̅)| < ϕ·min{vol_G(S), vol_G(S̅)}. A ϕ-expander decomposition of G is a partition of V into sets X_1, X_2, …, X_k such that each cluster G[X_i] contains no ϕ-sparse cut (meaning it is a ϕ-expander) with Õ(ϕ m) edges crossing between clusters. A natural way to compute a ϕ-expander decomposition is to decompose clusters by ϕ-sparse cuts until no such cut is contained in any cluster. We show that even in graphs undergoing edge deletions, a slight relaxation of this meta-algorithm can be implemented efficiently with amortized update time m^o(1)/ϕ^2. Our approach naturally extends to maintaining directed ϕ-expander decompositions and ϕ-expander hierarchies and thus gives a unifying framework while having simpler proofs than previous state-of-the-art work. In all settings, our algorithm matches the run-times of previous algorithms up to subpolynomial factors. Moreover, our algorithm provides stronger guarantees for ϕ-expander decompositions, for example, for graphs undergoing edge deletions, our approach achieves the first sublinear ϕ m^o(1) recourse bounds on the number of edges to become crossing between clusters. Our techniques also give by far the simplest, deterministic algorithms for maintaining Strongly-Connected Components (SCCs) in directed graphs undergoing edge deletions, and for maintaining connectivity in undirected fully-dynamic graphs, both matching the current state-of-the-art run-times up to subpolynomial factors.

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