Seth Pettie

Publications140
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Citations4,247
Highly Influential Citations312
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Mind the gap
The success of initiatives recently launched to help create more new treatments hinges on bridging the sociological divides that persist in drug discovery and development.
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An Exponential Separation between Randomized and Deterministic Complexity in the LOCAL Model
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Over the past 30 years numerous algorithms have been designed for symmetry breaking problems in the LOCAL model, such as maximal matching, MIS, vertex coloring, and edge-coloring. Expand
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The Locality of Distributed Symmetry Breaking
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We present new bounds on the locality of several classical symmetry breaking tasks in distributed networks. Expand
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Threesomes, Degenerates, and Love Triangles
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The 3SUM problem is to decide, given a set of n real numbers, whether any three sum to zero. Expand
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An optimal minimum spanning tree algorithm
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We establish that the algorithmic complexity of the minimumspanning tree problem is equal to its decision-tree complexity.We present a deterministic algorithm to find aminimum spanning tree of a graph with <i>n</i> vertices and<i>m</i>. Expand
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Linear-Time Approximation for Maximum Weight Matching
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We give an algorithm that computes a (1 − <i>ε</i>)-approximate maximum weight matching in <iÕ</i>(<i>mε</ i>√< i>n</i>) time, a bound that has resisted improvement despite decades of research. Expand
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Additive spanners and (α, β)-spanners
An (α, β)-spanner of an unweighted graph <i>G</i> is a subgraph <i>H</i> that distorts distances in <i>G</i> up to a multiplicative factor of α and an additive term β. It is well known that any graph… Expand
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Fast algorithms for (max, min)-matrix multiplication and bottleneck shortest paths
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In this paper, we give a (max, min)-matrix multiplication algorithm running in time O(n(3+ω)/2) in graphs with real capacities assigned to edges/vertices. Expand
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A new approach to all-pairs shortest paths on real-weighted graphs
  • Seth Pettie
  • Mathematics, Computer Science
  • Theor. Comput. Sci.
  • 26 January 2004
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We present a new all-pairs shortest path algorithm that works with real-weighted graphs in the traditional comparison-addition model. Expand
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A simpler linear time 2/3-epsilon approximation for maximum weight matching
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We present two 2/3 e approximation algorithms for the maximum weight matching problem that run in time O(m log 1e;). Expand
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