Distributed Interactive Proofs for Planarity with Log-Star Communication

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Auteurs principaux: Gil, Yuval, Parter, Merav
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author Gil, Yuval
Parter, Merav
author_facet Gil, Yuval
Parter, Merav
contents We provide new communication-efficient distributed interactive proofs for planarity. The notion of a \emph{distributed interactive proof (DIP)} was introduced by Kol, Oshman, and Saxena (PODC 2018). In a DIP, the \emph{prover} is a single centralized entity whose goal is to prove a certain claim regarding an input graph $G$. To do so, the prover communicates with a distributed \emph{verifier} that operates concurrently on all $n$ nodes of $G$. A DIP is measured by the amount of prover-verifier communication it requires. Namely, the goal is to design a DIP with a small number of interaction rounds and a small \emph{proof size}, i.e., a small amount of communication per round. Our main result is an $O(\log ^{*}n)$-round DIP protocol for embedded planarity and planarity with a proof size of $O(1)$ and $O(\lceil\log Δ/\log ^{*}n\rceil)$, respectively. In fact, this result can be generalized as follows. For any $1\leq r\leq \log^{*}n$, there exists an $O(r)$-round protocol for embedded planarity and planarity with a proof size of $O(\log ^{(r)}n)$ and $O(\log ^{(r)}n+\log Δ/r)$, respectively.
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spellingShingle Distributed Interactive Proofs for Planarity with Log-Star Communication
Gil, Yuval
Parter, Merav
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Data Structures and Algorithms
We provide new communication-efficient distributed interactive proofs for planarity. The notion of a \emph{distributed interactive proof (DIP)} was introduced by Kol, Oshman, and Saxena (PODC 2018). In a DIP, the \emph{prover} is a single centralized entity whose goal is to prove a certain claim regarding an input graph $G$. To do so, the prover communicates with a distributed \emph{verifier} that operates concurrently on all $n$ nodes of $G$. A DIP is measured by the amount of prover-verifier communication it requires. Namely, the goal is to design a DIP with a small number of interaction rounds and a small \emph{proof size}, i.e., a small amount of communication per round. Our main result is an $O(\log ^{*}n)$-round DIP protocol for embedded planarity and planarity with a proof size of $O(1)$ and $O(\lceil\log Δ/\log ^{*}n\rceil)$, respectively. In fact, this result can be generalized as follows. For any $1\leq r\leq \log^{*}n$, there exists an $O(r)$-round protocol for embedded planarity and planarity with a proof size of $O(\log ^{(r)}n)$ and $O(\log ^{(r)}n+\log Δ/r)$, respectively.
title Distributed Interactive Proofs for Planarity with Log-Star Communication
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18592