Optimizing Time Per Subproblem: Understanding Indegree and Acyclic Dependencies

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This holds true for all vertices in the graph, so the total time for all subproblems is the sum of all the indegrees, plus 1 for the initial vertex. In summary, the time required to find the shortest path from one vertex to another in a graph is determined by the indegrees of each vertex, making the total time complexity $\Theta(V+E)$.
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According to my lecture notes:

Suppose that we want to find the shortest path of a graph from $s$ to $v$ for some $s, v \in V$.

- Subproblem dependency should be acyclic.

#subproblems=$|V|$

time per subproblem: indegree $(v) $time= $\sum_{v \in V}$ indegree $(v)$+1=$\Theta(V+E)$

Why does it hold that [m]time per subproblem: indegree $(v)$[/m] ?
 
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The time per subproblem refers to the time required to process each vertex in the graph. Since the time required to process a vertex is determined by its indegree (the number of edges that are connected to it), the time per subproblem is the indegree of the vertex.
 

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