2010/06/06 by Cohen, Hagai, Porat, Ely · 1 citation
#Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1006.1117
In this paper we show that set-intersection is harder than distance oracle on sparse graphs. Given a collection of total size n which consists of m sets drawn from universe U, the set-intersection problem is to build a data structure which can answer whether two sets have any intersection. A distance oracle is a data structure which can answer distance queries on a given graph. We show that if one can build distance oracle for sparse graph G=(V,E), which requires s(|V|,|E|) space and answers a (2-ε,c)-approximate distance query in time t(|V|,|E|) where (2-ε) is a multiplicative error and c is a constant additive error, then, set-intersection can be solved in t(m+|U|,n) time using s(m+|U|,n) space.