Reconstructing a point set from a random subset of its pairwise distances
Combinatorics
2023-01-27 v1 Metric Geometry
Abstract
Let be a set of points on the real line. Suppose that each pairwise distance is known independently with probability . How much of can be reconstructed up to isometry? We prove that is a sharp threshold for reconstructing all of which improves a result of Benjamini and Tzalik. This follows from a hitting time result for the random process where the pairwise distances are revealed one-by-one uniformly at random. We also show that is a weak threshold for reconstructing a linear proportion of .
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@article{arxiv.2301.11019,
title = {Reconstructing a point set from a random subset of its pairwise distances},
author = {António Girão and Freddie Illingworth and Lukas Michel and Emil Powierski and Alex Scott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11019},
year = {2023}
}
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13 pages