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Extremal Uniquely Resolvable Multisets

Combinatorics 2022-09-02 v3

Abstract

For positive integers nn and mm, consider a multiset of non-empty subsets of [m][m] such that there is a \textit{unique} partition of these subsets into nn partitions of [m][m]. We study the maximum possible size g(n,m)g(n,m) of such a multiset. We focus on the regime n2m11n \leq 2^{m-1}-1 and show that g(n,m)Ω(nmlog2n)g(n,m) \geq \Omega(\frac{nm}{\log_2 n}). When n=2cmn = 2^{cm} for any c(0,1)c \in (0,1), this lower bound simplifies to Ω(nc)\Omega(\frac{n}{c}), and we show a matching upper bound g(n,m)O(nclog2(1c))g(n,m) \leq O(\frac{n}{c}\log_2(\frac{1}{c})) that is optimal up to a factor of log2(1c)\log_2(\frac{1}{c}). We also compute g(n,m)g(n,m) exactly when n2m1O(2m2)n \geq 2^{m-1} - O(2^{\frac{m}{2}}).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.10222,
  title  = {Extremal Uniquely Resolvable Multisets},
  author = {Varun Sivashankar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10222},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures. Accepted to SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (SIDMA)

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