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Set Reconstruction on the Hypercube

Combinatorics 2017-10-31 v2

Abstract

Given an action of a group GG on a set SS, the kk-deck of a subset TT of SS is the multiset of all subsets of TT of size kk, each given up to translation by GG. For a given subset TT, the {\em reconstruction number} of TT is the minimum kk such that the kk-deck uniquely identifies TT up to translation by GG, and the {\em reconstruction number} of the action G:SG:S is the maximum reconstruction number of any subset of SS. The concept of reconstruction number extends naturally to multisubsets TT of SS and in~\cite{CPC:257539}, the author calculated the multiset-reconstruction number of all finite abelian groups. In particular, it was shown that the multiset-reconstruction number of Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n was n+1n+1. This provides an upper bound of n+1n+1 to the reconstruction number of Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n. The author also showed a lower bound of n+12\lfloor{\frac{n+1}2}\rfloor in the same paper. The purpose of this note is to close the gap. The reconstruction number of Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n is n+1log2(n+1log2(n)).\lfloor{n+1-\log_2(n+1-\log_2(n))}\rfloor.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05675,
  title  = {Set Reconstruction on the Hypercube},
  author = {Luke Pebody},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05675},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages

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