On the compatibility of binary sequences
Abstract
An ordered pair of semi-infinite binary sequences is said to be compatible if there is a way of removing a certain number (possibly infinite) of ones from and zeroes from , whichwould map both sequences to the same semi-infinite sequence. This notion was introduced by Peter Winkler, who also posed the following question: and being independent i.i.d. Bernoulli sequences with parameters and respectively, does it exist so that the set of compatible pairs has positive measure? It is known that this does not happen for and very close to 1/2. In the positive direction, we construct, for any , a deterministic binary sequence whose set of zeroes has Hausdorff dimension larger than , and such that for small enough, where stands for the product Bernoulli measure with parameter .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.3197,
title = {On the compatibility of binary sequences},
author = {Harry Kesten and Bernardo N. B. de Lima and Vladas Sidoravicius and Maria Eulália Vares},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3197},
year = {2012}
}
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32 pages, 5 figures