Reconstructing a giant component of a point set in $\mathbb{R}$
Combinatorics
2026-02-27 v1
Abstract
Let be a finite set with and suppose we are given each pairwise distance independently with probability . We show that if , for some fixed , then we can reconstruct a subset of size , up to translation and reflection, with high probability. This confirms a conjecture posed by Gir\~ao, Illingworth, Michel, Powierski, and Scott. We also study a deterministic variant proposed by Benjamini and Tzalik. We show that if we are given distinct pairwise distances of a point set with , then we can reconstruct a subset of size , up to translation and reflection. Moreover, we show that this is optimal, which also disproves a conjecture posed by Benjamini and Tzalik.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.23122,
title = {Reconstructing a giant component of a point set in $\mathbb{R}$},
author = {Julien Portier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.23122},
year = {2026}
}