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== Parameters ==  
== Parameters ==  


n: number of vertices
$n$: number of vertices


m: number of total number of operations (queries, links, and cuts)
$m$: number of total number of operations (queries, links, and cuts)


== Table of Algorithms ==  
== Table of Algorithms ==  
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| [[Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm (Off-Line Lowest Common Ancestor Lowest Common Ancestor)|Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm]] || 1984 || $O(n+m)$ || $O(n)$ || Exact || Deterministic || [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fast-Algorithms-for-Finding-Nearest-Common-Harel-Tarjan/8867d059dda279b1aed4a0301e4e46f9daf65174 Time] & [https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~segal/PAPERS2/tarj.pdf Space]
| [[Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm (Off-Line Lowest Common Ancestor Lowest Common Ancestor)|Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm]] || 1984 || $O(n+m)$ || $O(n)$ || Exact || Deterministic || [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fast-Algorithms-for-Finding-Nearest-Common-Harel-Tarjan/8867d059dda279b1aed4a0301e4e46f9daf65174 Time & Space]
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| [[Schieber; Vishkin (Lowest Common Ancestor with Static Trees Lowest Common Ancestor)|Schieber; Vishkin]] || 1988 || $O(n+m)$ || $O(n)$ || Exact || Deterministic || [https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/0217079?journalCode=smjcat Time] & [https://www.proquest.com/docview/919780720?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true Space]
| [[Schieber; Vishkin (Lowest Common Ancestor with Static Trees Lowest Common Ancestor)|Schieber; Vishkin]] || 1988 || $O(n+m)$ || $O(n)$ || Exact || Deterministic || [https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/0217079?journalCode=smjcat Time & Space]
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| [[Berkman; Vishkin (Lowest Common Ancestor with Static Trees Lowest Common Ancestor)|Berkman; Vishkin]] || 1993 || $O(n+m)$ ? || $O(n)$ || Exact || Deterministic || [https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a227803.pdf Time]
| [[Berkman; Vishkin (Lowest Common Ancestor with Static Trees Lowest Common Ancestor)|Berkman; Vishkin]] || 1993 || $O(n+m)$ ? || $O(n)$ || Exact || Deterministic || [https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a227803.pdf Time]
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[[File:Lowest Common Ancestor - Time.png|1000px]]
[[File:Lowest Common Ancestor - Time.png|1000px]]
== Space Complexity Graph ==
[[File:Lowest Common Ancestor - Space.png|1000px]]
== Space-Time Tradeoff Improvements ==
[[File:Lowest Common Ancestor - Pareto Frontier.png|1000px]]

Latest revision as of 10:08, 28 April 2023

Description

Given a collection of rooted trees, answer queries of the form, "What is the nearest common ancestor of vertices $x$ and $y$?"

Related Problems

Subproblem: Off-Line Lowest Common Ancestor, Lowest Common Ancestor with Static Trees, Lowest Common Ancestor with Linking Roots, Lowest Common Ancestor with Linking, Lowest Common Ancestors with Linking and Cutting

Related: Lowest Common Ancestor with Static Trees, Lowest Common Ancestor with Linking Roots, Lowest Common Ancestor with Linking, Lowest Common Ancestors with Linking and Cutting

Parameters

$n$: number of vertices

$m$: number of total number of operations (queries, links, and cuts)

Table of Algorithms

Name Year Time Space Approximation Factor Model Reference
Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm 1984 $O(n+m)$ $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Schieber; Vishkin 1988 $O(n+m)$ $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Berkman; Vishkin 1993 $O(n+m)$ ? $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time
[[Bender; Colton (LCA <=> RMQ) (Lowest Common Ancestor with Static Trees Lowest Common Ancestor)|Bender; Colton (LCA <=> RMQ)]] 2000 $O(n+m)$ $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time
Stephen Alstrup, Cyril Gavoille, Haim Kaplan & Theis Rauhe 2004 $O(n+m)$ $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time
Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman (Offline) 1976 $O(n+ m*alpha(m + n, n)$) where alpha is the inverse Ackermann function $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman (Static Trees) 1976 $O((m+n)$*log(log(n))) $O(n*log(log(n)$)) Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman (Linking) 1976 $O((m+n)$*log(n)) $O(n*log(n)$) Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Modified van Leeuwen (Static Trees) 1976 $O(n+m*log(log(n)$)) $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Space
Modified van Leeuwen (Linking Roots) 1976 $O(n+m*log(log(n)$)) $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Space
Sleator and Tarjan (Linking) 1983 $O(n+m*log(n)$) $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Sleator and Tarjan (Linking and Cutting) 1983 $O(n+m*log(n)$) $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Harel, Tarjan (Static Trees) 1984 $O(n+m)$ $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Harel, Tarjan (Linking Roots) 1984 $O(n+ m*alpha(m + n, n)$) where alpha is the inverse Ackermann function $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Schieber; Vishkin (Parallel) 1988 $O(m+log(n)$) $O(n)$ total (auxiliary?) Exact Parallel Time & Space
Fischer, Heun 2006 $O(m+n)$ $O(n)$ Exact Parallel Time & Space
Kmett 2015 $O(m*log(h)$) Exact Parallel Time

Time Complexity Graph

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