Linial's Lower Bound Made Easy

Abstract

Linial's seminal result shows that any deterministic distributed algorithm that finds a 3-colouring of an n-cycle requires at least *(n)/2 - 1 communication rounds. We give a new simpler proof of this theorem.

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