Pairwise Reachability Oracles and Preservers under Failures
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In this paper, we consider reachability oracles and reachability preservers for directed graphs/networks prone to edge/node failures. Let G = (V, E) be a directed graph on n-nodes, and P⊆ V× V be a set of vertex pairs in G. We present the first non-trivial constructions of single and dual fault-tolerant pairwise reachability oracle with constant query time. Furthermore, we provide extremal bounds for sparse fault-tolerant reachability preservers, resilient to two or more failures. Prior to this work, such oracles and reachability preservers were widely studied for the special scenario of single-source and all-pairs settings. However, for the scenario of arbitrary pairs, no prior (non-trivial) results were known for dual (or more) failures, except those implied from the single-source setting. One of the main questions is whether it is possible to beat the O(n |P|) size bound (derived from the single-source setting) for reachability oracle and preserver for dual failures (or O(2^k n|P|) bound for k failures). We answer this question affirmatively.
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