Time Complexity of Prims Algorithm?

Sonali picture Sonali · Dec 6, 2013 · Viewed 59.7k times · Source

I found the time complexity of Prims algorithm everywhere as O((V + E) log V) = E log V. But as we can see the algorithm:

It seems like the time complexity is O(V(log V + E log V)). But if its time complexity is O((V + E) log V). Then the nesting must have to be like this:

But the above nesting is seems to be wrong.

Answer

tanmoy picture tanmoy · Jan 15, 2014
MST-PRIM(G, w, r)
1  for each u ∈ G.V
2       u.key ← ∞
3       u.π ← NIL
4   r.key ← 0
5   Q ← G.V
6   while Q ≠ Ø
7       u ← EXTRACT-MIN(Q)
8       for each v ∈ G.Adjacent[u]
9           if v ∈ Q and w(u, v) < v.key
10              v.π ← u
11              v.key ← w(u, v)

Using a Binary Heap

  1. The time complexity required for one call to EXTRACT-MIN(Q) is O(log V) using a min priority queue. The while loop at line 6 is executing total V times.so EXTRACT-MIN(Q) is called V times. So the complexity of EXTRACT-MIN(Q) is O(V logV).

  2. The for loop at line 8 is executing total 2E times as length of each adjacency lists is 2E for an undirected graph. The time required to execute line 11 is O(log v) by using the DECREASE_KEY operation on the min heap. Line 11 also executes total 2E times. So the total time required to execute line 11 is O(2E logV) = O(E logV).

  3. The for loop at line 1 will be executed V times. Using the procedure to perform lines 1 to 5 will require a complexity of O(V).

Total time complexity of MST-PRIM is the sum of the time complexity required to execute steps 1 through 3 for a total of O(VlogV + (E logV + V) = O(E logV).

Using a Fibonacci Heap

  1. Same as above.
  2. Executing line 11 requires O(1) amortized time. Line 11 executes a total of 2E times. So the total time complexity is O(E).
  3. Same as above

So the total time complexity of MST-PRIM is the sum of executing steps 1 through 3 for a total complexity of O(V logV + E + V)=O(E + V logV).