Rounds in a combinatorial search problem
Combinatorics
2016-12-04 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
We consider the following combinatorial search problem: we are given some excellent elements of and we should find at least one, asking questions of the following type: "Is there an excellent element in ?". G.O.H. Katona proved sharp results for the number of questions needed to ask in the adaptive, non-adaptive and two-round versions of this problem. We verify a conjecture of Katona by proving that in the -round version we need to ask queries for fixed and this is sharp. We also prove bounds for the queries needed to ask if we want to find at least excellent elements.
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@article{arxiv.1611.10133,
title = {Rounds in a combinatorial search problem},
author = {Dániel Gerbner and Máté Vizer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.10133},
year = {2016}
}
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14 pages