SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, Volume 64 , Issue 11 : 212101(2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-020-2931-x

## A nearly optimal distributed algorithm for computing the weighted girth

• AcceptedMay 25, 2020
• PublishedMay 14, 2021
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### Acknowledgment

This work was supported in part by National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1003203), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 61972447), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2019kfyXKJC021). We thank the anonymous reviewers for the helpful comments to improve the presentation of this paper.

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