Sebastian Brandt · Orr Fischer · Juho Hirvonen · Barbara Keller · Tuomo Lempiäinen · Joel Rybicki · Jukka Suomela · Jara Uitto

# A lower bound for the distributed Lovász local lemma

STOC 2016 · 48th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2016 ·

# Abstract

We show that any randomised Monte Carlo distributed algorithm for the Lovász local lemma requires $\Omega(\log \log n)$ communication rounds, assuming that it finds a correct assignment with high probability. Our result holds even in the special case of $d = O(1)$, where $d$ is the maximum degree of the dependency graph. By prior work, there are distributed algorithms for the Lovász local lemma with a running time of $O(\log n)$ rounds in bounded-degree graphs, and the best lower bound before our work was $\Omega(\log^* n)$ rounds [Chung et al. 2014].

# Publication

Daniel Wichs and Yishay Mansour (Eds.): STOC’16, Proceedings of the 48th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, pages 479–488, ACM Press, New York, 2016

ISBN 978-1-4503-4132-5

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