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| Suggested by | Krzysztof Onak |
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| Source | Bertinoro 2011 |
| Short link | https://sublinear.info/38 |
A local partitioning oracle is defined in the paper of Hassidim, Kelner, Nguyen, and Onak [HassidimKNO-09], and an implicit construction of a partitioning oracle is shown in the earlier paper of Benjamini, Schramm, and Shapira [BenjaminiSS-08]. Partitioning oracles are a useful abstraction for approximation and testing algorithms in the bounded degree model.
The best known oracle for bounded-degree planar graphs makes at most $d^{\operatorname{poly}(1/\epsilon)}$ queries to the underlying graph to answer each query about the resulting partition, where $d$ is the bound on the maximum vertex degree in the graph. See [Onak-10] for a description of the method.
Question: Can one design an oracle that makes only $\operatorname{poly}(d/\epsilon)$ queries? If so, then among other things, this would lead to a tester for planarity in the bounded-degree model that makes only $\operatorname{poly}(1/\epsilon)$ queries, resolving an open question of Benjamini et al. [BenjaminiSS-08].
