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Shotgun assembly of random graphs

Combinatorics 2025-06-24 v3 Discrete Mathematics Probability

Abstract

In the graph shotgun assembly problem, we are given the balls of radius rr around each vertex of a graph and asked to reconstruct the graph. We study the shotgun assembly of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph G(n,p)\mathcal G(n,p) for a wide range of values of rr. We determine the threshold for reconstructibility for each r3r\geq 3, extending and improving substantially on results of Mossel and Ross for r=3r=3. For r=2r=2, we give upper and lower bounds that improve on results of Gaudio and Mossel by polynomial factors. We also give a sharpening of a result of Huang and Tikhomirov for r=1r=1.

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@article{arxiv.2211.14218,
  title  = {Shotgun assembly of random graphs},
  author = {Tom Johnston and Gal Kronenberg and Alexander Roberts and Alex Scott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14218},
  year   = {2025}
}

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39 pages, 3 figures

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