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The Input/Output Complexity Of Transitive Closure

Summary: Analyzes I/O complexity of transitive closure under Kung–Hong with memory s. Dense: O(n^3/√s) I/O suffices and is tight for standard algorithms; sparse: O(n^2√(e/s)) I/O suffices (acyclic standard) with matching lower bound, while restricted-path variants need Ω(n^3√(e/s)/log^3 n) on cyclic graphs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2469
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00012260807
Overall Rank
1,389 | 90.34%
DOI
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