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Seth Pettie is a researcher affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily lie within the field of Computer Science, encompassing 78 publications.

Their work covers several subfields, including:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Signal Processing

Main research topics addressed by Pettie are diverse, featuring:

  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Interconnection Networks and Systems
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research

Recent notable papers authored by Pettie include:

  • "Near-optimal Distributed Triangle Enumeration via Expander Decompositions," 2021, Journal of the ACM
  • "Distributed (Δ+1)-Coloring via Ultrafast Graph Shattering," 2020, SIAM Journal on Computing
  • "Wake up and join me! An energy-efficient algorithm for maximal matching in radio networks," 2022, Distributed Computing
  • "Lower Bounds on Sparse Spanners, Emulators, and Diameter-Reducing Shortcuts," 2021, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • "Connectivity Oracles for Graphs Subject to Vertex Failures," 2020, SIAM Journal on Computing

Pettie frequently publishes in several venues with multiple contributions, most notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the ACM
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Distributed Computing

Collaborations form a significant part of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Shang-En Huang
  • Gábor Tardos
  • Thatchaphol Saranurak
  • Varsha Dani
  • Thomas P. Hayes

Best Publications

  • An optimal minimum spanning tree algorithm

    Seth Pettie;Vijaya Ramachandran

  • Linear-Time Approximation for Maximum Weight Matching

    Ran Duan;Seth Pettie

  • A new approach to all-pairs shortest paths on real-weighted graphs

    Seth Pettie

  • The Locality of Distributed Symmetry Breaking

    Leonid Barenboim;Michael Elkin;Seth Pettie;Johannes Schneider

  • Additive spanners and (α, β)-spanners

    Surender Baswana;Telikepalli Kavitha;Kurt Mehlhorn;Seth Pettie

  • Higher lower bounds from the 3SUM conjecture

    Tsvi Kopelowitz;Seth Pettie;Ely Porat

  • A simpler linear time 2/3 - ε approximation for maximum weight matching

    Seth Pettie;Peter Sanders

  • Low distortion spanners

    Seth Pettie

  • Improved distributed approximate matching

    Zvi Lotker;Boaz Patt-Shamir;Seth Pettie

  • New constructions of (α, β)-spanners and purely additive spanners

    Surender Baswana;Telikepalli Kavitha;Kurt Mehlhorn;Seth Pettie

  • The Locality of Distributed Symmetry Breaking

    Leonid Barenboim;Michael Elkin;Seth Pettie;Johannes Schneider

  • Dual-failure distance and connectivity oracles

    Ran Duan;Seth Pettie

  • A Randomized Time-Work Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Finding a Minimum Spanning Forest

    Seth Pettie;Vijaya Ramachandran

  • Distributed algorithms for the Lovász local lemma and graph coloring

    Kai-Min Chung;Seth Pettie;Hsin-Hao Su

  • A Shortest Path Algorithm for Real-Weighted Undirected Graphs

    Seth Pettie;Vijaya Ramachandran

  • Fast algorithms for (max, min)-matrix multiplication and bottleneck shortest paths

    Ran Duan;Seth Pettie

  • An Exponential Separation between Randomized and Deterministic Complexity in the LOCAL Model

    Yi-Jun Chang;Tsvi Kopelowitz;Seth Pettie

  • Distributed algorithms for ultrasparse spanners and linear size skeletons

    Seth Pettie

  • A Hierarchy of Lower Bounds for Sublinear Additive Spanners

    Amir Abboud;Greg Bodwin;Seth Pettie

  • An optimal distributed (Δ+1)-coloring algorithm?

    Yi-Jun Chang;Wenzheng Li;Seth Pettie

  • Improved Distributed Approximate Matching

    Zvi Lotker;Boaz Patt-Shamir;Seth Pettie

  • Threesomes, Degenerates, and Love Triangles

    Allan Grønlund;Seth Pettie

Frequent Co-Authors

Vijaya Ramachandran
Vijaya Ramachandran The University of Texas at Austin
Ely Porat
Ely Porat Bar-Ilan University
Michael Elkin
Michael Elkin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael A. Bender
Michael A. Bender Stony Brook University
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Amihood Amir
Amihood Amir Bar-Ilan University
Harold N. Gabow
Harold N. Gabow University of Colorado Boulder
Mikkel Thorup
Mikkel Thorup University of Copenhagen
Uri Zwick
Uri Zwick Tel Aviv University
Boaz Patt-Shamir
Boaz Patt-Shamir Tel Aviv University

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