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On the Voting Time of the Deterministic Majority Process

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In the deterministic binary majority process we are given a simple graph where each node has one out of two initial opinions. In every round, each node adopts the majority opinion among its neighbors. It is known that this process always converges in O(|E|) rounds to a two-periodic state in which every node either keeps its opinion or changes it in every round. It has been shown by Frischknecht, Keller, and Wattenhofer (2013) that the O(|E|) bound on the convergence time of the deterministic binary majority process is even for dense graphs tight. However, in many graphs such as the complete graph the process converges in just a constant number of rounds from any initial opinion assignment. We show that it is NP-hard to decide whether there exists an initial opinion assignment for which it takes more than k rounds to converge to the two-periodic stable state, for a given integer k. We then give a new upper bound on the voting time of the deterministic binary majority process. Our bound can be computed in linear time by carefully exploiting the structure of the potential function by Goles and Olivos. We identify certain modules of a graph G to obtain a new graph G^Delta. This new graph G^Delta has the property that the worst-case convergence time of G^Delta is an upper bound on that of G. Our new bounds asymptotically improve the best known bounds for various graph classes.
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hal-02001816 , version 1 (31-01-2019)

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Dominik Kaaser, Frederik Mallmann-Trenn, Emanuele Natale. On the Voting Time of the Deterministic Majority Process. 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016), Aug 2016, Krakow, Poland. ⟨10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.55⟩. ⟨hal-02001816⟩
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