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Reconstruction of shredded random matrices

Combinatorics 2024-01-11 v1

Abstract

A matrix is given in ``shredded'' form if we are presented with the multiset of rows and the multiset of columns, but not told which row is which or which column is which. The matrix is reconstructible if it is uniquely determined by this information. Let MM be a random binary n×nn\times n matrix, where each entry independently is 11 with probability p=p(n)12p=p(n)\le\frac12. Atamanchuk, Devroye and Vicenzo introduced the problem and showed that MM is reconstructible with high probability for p(2+ε)1nlognp\ge (2+\varepsilon)\frac{1}{n}\log n. Here we find that the sharp threshold for reconstructibility is at p12nlognp\sim\frac{1}{2n}\log n.

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@article{arxiv.2401.05058,
  title  = {Reconstruction of shredded random matrices},
  author = {Paul Balister and Gal Kronenberg and Alex Scott and Youri Tamitegama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05058},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:13:05.031Z