{"paper":{"title":"Breaking the Bellman-Ford Shortest-Path Bound","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cs.DS","authors_text":"Amr Elmasry","submitted_at":"2019-05-03T18:04:34Z","abstract_excerpt":"In this paper we give a single-source shortest-path algorithm that breaks, after over 60 years, the $O(n \\cdot m)$ time bound for the Bellman-Ford algorithm, where $n$ is the number of vertices and $m$ is the number of arcs of the graph. Our algorithm converts the input graph to a graph with nonnegative weights by performing at most $\\min(\\sqrt{n},\\sqrt{m/\\log n})$ calls to Dijkstra's algorithm, such that the shortest-path tree is the same for the new graph as that for the original. When Dijkstra's algorithm is implemented using Fibonacci heaps, the running time of our algorithm is therefore $"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1905.01325","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}