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In this paper, we consider a synchronization problem between nodes $A$ and $B$ that are connected through a two--way communication channel. {Node $A$} contains a binary file $X$ of length $n$ and {node $B$} contains a binary file $Y$ that…
Constructing a discretization of a given set is a major problem in various theoretical and applied disciplines. An offset discretization of a set $X$ is obtained by taking the integer points inside a closed neighborhood of $X$ of a certain…
We study the problem of estimating the edit distance between two $n$-character strings. While exact computation in the worst case is believed to require near-quadratic time, previous work showed that in certain regimes it is possible to…
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We study the uniqueness and accuracy of the numerical solution of the problem of reconstruction of the shape and trajectory of a reflecting obstacle moving in an inhomogeneous medium from travel times, start and end points, and initial…
The locally repairable code (LRC) studied in this paper is an $[n,k]$ linear code of which the value at each coordinate can be recovered by a linear combination of at most $r$ other coordinates. The central problem in this work is to…
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Recent advances in segmented solid-state detector arrays for rare-event searches have allowed the technology to approach the ton-scale in detector mass and the scale of meters in size. Often focused around searches for neutrinoless…
This paper studies the problem of reconstructing binary matrices that are only accessible through few evaluations of their discrete X-rays. Such question is prominently motivated by the demand in material science for developing a tool for…
The distinct elements problem is one of the fundamental problems in streaming algorithms --- given a stream of integers in the range $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, we wish to provide a $(1+\varepsilon)$ approximation to the number of distinct elements…
In the Graph Reconstruction (GR) problem, the goal is to recover a hidden graph by utilizing some oracle that provides limited access to the structure of the graph. The interest is in characterizing how strong different oracles are when the…
In this paper, we study the following problem of reconstructing a simple polygon: Given a cyclically ordered vertex sequence of an unknown simple polygon P of n vertices and, for each vertex v of P, the sequence of angles defined by all the…
We revisit the complexity of approximate pattern matching in an elastic-degenerate string. Such a string is a sequence of $n$ finite sets of strings of total length $N$, and compactly describes a collection of strings obtained by first…
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Lexicographically minimal string rotation is a fundamental problem in string processing that has recently garnered significant attention in quantum computing. Near-optimal quantum algorithms have been proposed for solving this problem,…
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