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System of unbiased representatives for a collection of bicolorings

Combinatorics 2017-04-26 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let B\mathcal{B} denote a set of bicolorings of [n][n], where each bicoloring is a mapping of the points in [n][n] to {1,+1}\{-1,+1\}. For each BBB \in \mathcal{B}, let YB=(B(1),,B(n))Y_B=(B(1),\ldots,B(n)). For each A[n]A \subseteq [n], let XA{0,1}nX_A \in \{0,1\}^n denote the incidence vector of AA. A non-empty set AA is said to be an `unbiased representative' for a bicoloring BBB \in \mathcal{B} if XA,YB=0\left\langle X_A,Y_B\right\rangle =0. Given a set B\mathcal{B} of bicolorings, we study the minimum cardinality of a family A\mathcal{A} consisting of subsets of [n][n] such that every bicoloring in B\mathcal{B} has an unbiased representative in A\mathcal{A}.

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@article{arxiv.1704.07716,
  title  = {System of unbiased representatives for a collection of bicolorings},
  author = {Niranjan Balachandran and Rogers Mathew and Tapas Kumar Mishra and Sudebkumar Prasant Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07716},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure