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A better tester for bipartiteness?

11/2010; DOI:abs/1011.0531
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT Alon and Krivelevich (SIAM J. Discrete Math. 15(2): 211-227 (2002)) show that if a graph is {\epsilon}-far from bipartite, then the subgraph induced by a random subset of O(1/{\epsilon}) vertices is bipartite with high probability. We conjecture that the induced subgraph is {\Omega}~({\epsilon})-far from bipartite with high probability. Gonen and Ron (RANDOM 2007) proved this conjecture in the case when the degrees of all vertices are at most O({\epsilon}n). We give a more general proof that works for any d-regular (or almost d-regular) graph for arbitrary degree d. Assuming this conjecture, we prove that bipartiteness is testable with one-sided error in time O(1/{\epsilon}^c), where c is a constant strictly smaller than two, improving upon the tester of Alon and Krivelevich. As it is known that non-adaptive testers for bipartiteness require {\Omega}(1/{\epsilon}^2) queries (Bogdanov and Trevisan, CCC 2004), our result shows, assuming the conjecture, that adaptivity helps in testing bipartiteness. Comment: 18 pages

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Keywords

Alon

arbitrary degree d. Assuming

bipartite

bipartiteness

Bogdanov

conjecture

d-regular

degrees

general proof

Gonen

induced subgraph

one-sided error

SIAM J. Discrete Math

subgraph induced

testing bipartiteness

Trevisan