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Abstract:We give a deterministic $O(m\log^{2/3}n)$-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the first result to break the $O(m+n\log n)$ time bound of Dijkstra's algorithm on sparse graphs, showing that Dijkstra's algorithm is not optimal for SSSP.
Comments: 17 pages
Subjects: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
ACM classes: F.2.2
Cite as: arXiv:2504.17033 [cs.DS]
  (or arXiv:2504.17033v2 [cs.DS] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.17033

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From: Ran Duan [view email]
[v1] Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:26:39 UTC (35 KB)
[v2] Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:02:48 UTC (49 KB)