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George Giakkoupis
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We establish a bound for the classic PUSH-PULL rumor spreading protocol on arbitrary graphs, in terms of the vertex expansion of the graph. We show that O(log^2(n)/alpha) rounds suffice with high probability to spread a rumor from a single node to all n nodes, in any graph with vertex expansion at least alpha. This bound matches the known lower bound, and settles the question on the relationship between rumor spreading and vertex expansion asked by Chierichetti, Lattanzi, and Panconesi (SODA 2010). Further, some of the arguments used in the proof may be of independent interest, as they give new insights, for example, on how to choose a small set of nodes in which to plant the rumor initially, to guarantee fast rumor spreading.
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We study the Excluded Grid Theorem, a fundamental structural result in graph theory, that was proved by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal work on graph minors. The theorem states that there is a function $f: mathbb{Z}^+ to mathbb{Z}^+$, such that for every integer $g>0$, every graph of treewidth at least $f(g)$ contains the $(gtimes g)$-grid as a minor. For every integer $g>0$, let $f(g)$ be the smallest value for which the theorem holds. Establishing tight bounds on $f(g)$ is an important graph-theoretic question. Robertson and Seymour showed that $f(g)=Omega(g^2log g)$ must hold. For a long time, the best known upper bounds on $f(g)$ were super-exponential in $g$. The first polynomial upper bound of $f(g)=O(g^{98}text{poly}log g)$ was proved by Chekuri and Chuzhoy. It was later improved to $f(g) = O(g^{36}text{poly} log g)$, and then to $f(g)=O(g^{19}text{poly}log g)$. In this paper we further improve this bound to $f(g)=O(g^{9}text{poly} log g)$. We believe that our proof is significantly simpler than the proofs of the previous bounds. Moreover, while there are natural barriers that seem to prevent the previous methods from yielding tight bounds for the theorem, it seems conceivable that the techniques proposed in this paper can lead to even tighter bounds on $f(g)$.
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