Title
Searching for a superlinear lower bounds for the Maximum Consecutive Subsums Problem and the (min,+)-convolution
Abstract
Given a sequence of n numbers, the Maximum Consecutive Subsums Problem (MCSP) asks for the maximum consecutive sum of lengths l for each l = 1,...,n. No algorithm is known for this problem which is significantly better than the naive quadratic solution. Nor a super linear lower bound is known. The best known bound for the MCSP is based on the the computation of the (min,+)-convolution, another problem for which neither an O(n^{2-{\epsilon}}) upper bound is known nor a super linear lower bound. We show that the two problems are in fact computationally equivalent by providing linear reductions between them. Then, we concentrate on the problem of finding super linear lower bounds and provide empirical evidence for an {\Omega}(nlogn) lower bounds for both problems in the decision tree model.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
CoRR
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Upper and lower bounds,Convolution,Quadratic equation,Decision tree model,Omega,Mathematics,Computation
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1509.05445
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wilfredo Bardales Roncalla100.68
Eduardo Sany Laber222927.12
Ferdinando Cicalese345048.20