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In this short note we revisit the upper bound of the asymptotic least density of covering codes of radius $R$ in $[q]^n$ established by Krivelevich, Sudakov, and Vu. We show that by using a slightly different optimization in their core…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Andrey Shapiro

Given natural numbers $k \leq s \leq n$, we ask: what is the minimal VC-dimension of a family $\mathcal{F}$ of $s$-subsets of $[n]$ that covers all $k$-subsets of $[n]$? We first show that for sufficiently large $n$ this number is always…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-24 George Peterzil , Johanna Steinmeyer

We study the smallest possible number of points in a topological space having k open sets. Equivalently, this is the smallest possible number of elements in a poset having k order ideals. Using efficient algorithms for constructing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-20 Kari Ragnarsson , Bridget Eileen Tenner

A typical problem in optimal design theory is finding an experimental design that is optimal with respect to some criteria in a class of designs. The most popular criteria include the A- and D-criteria. Regular graph designs occur in many…

Computation · Statistics 2015-04-20 Sera Aylin Cakiroglu

Coverage problems are central in optimization and have a wide range of applications in data mining and machine learning. While several distributed algorithms have been developed for coverage problems, the existing methods suffer from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-13 MohammadHossein Bateni , Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni

A subset $B$ of the ring $\mathbb{Z}_n$ is referred to as a $\ell$-covering set if $\{ ab \pmod n | 0\leq a \leq \ell, b\in B\} = \mathbb{Z}_n$. We show that there exists a $\ell$-covering set of $\mathbb{Z}_n$ of size $O(\frac{n}{\ell}\log…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Ke Shi , Chao Xu

We construct explicit $\delta$-bracketing covers with minimal cardinality for the set system of (anchored) rectangles in the two dimensional unit cube. More precisely, the cardinality of these $\delta$-bracketing covers are bounded from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Michael Gnewuch

A set of $N$ permutations of $\{1,2,\ldots,v\}$ is $t$-suitable, if each symbol precedes each subset of $t-1$ others in at least one permutation. The extremal problem of determining the smallest size $N$ of such sets for given $v$ and $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Xiande Zhang

We study algorithms for construction of composable coresets for the task of Determinant Maximization under partition constraint. Given a point set $V\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ that is partitioned into $s$ groups $V_1,\cdots, V_s$, and integers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sepideh Mahabadi , Thuy-Duong Vuong

A $k$-matching cover of a graph $G$ is a union of $k$ matchings of $G$ which covers $V(G)$. A matching cover of $G$ is optimal if it consists of the fewest matchings of $G$. In this paper, we present an algorithm for finding an optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Xiumei Wang , Xiaoxin Song , Jinjiang Yuan

Nine new 2-D OOCs are presented here, all sharing the common feature of a code size that is much larger in relation to the number of time slots than those of constructions appearing previously in the literature. Each of these constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Reza Omrani , Gagan Garg , P. Vijay Kumar , Petros Elia , Pankaj Bhambhani

An asymmetric binary covering code of length n and radius R is a subset C of the n-cube Q_n such that every vector x in Q_n can be obtained from some vector c in C by changing at most R 1's of c to 0's, where R is as small as possible.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Joshua N. Cooper , Robert B. Ellis , Andrew B. Kahng

A $2-(v,k,\lambda)$ directed design (or simply a $2-(v,k,\lambda)DD$) is super-simple if its underlying $2-(v,k,2\lambda)BIBD$ is super-simple, that is, any two blocks of the $BIBD$ intersect in at most two points. A $2-(v,k,\lambda)DD$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Nasrin Soltankhah , Farzane Amirzade

Linear erasure codes with local repairability are desirable for distributed data storage systems. An [n, k, d] code having all-symbol (r, \delta})-locality, denoted as (r, {\delta})a, is considered optimal if it also meets the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Wentu Song , Son Hoang Dau , Chau Yuen , Tiffany Jing Li

A strong $s$-blocking set in a projective space is a set of points that intersects each codimension-$s$ subspace in a spanning set of the subspace. We present an explicit construction of such sets in a $(k - 1)$-dimensional projective space…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Anurag Bishnoi , István Tomon

Given an $n$-vertex bipartite graph $I=(S,U,E)$, the goal of set cover problem is to find a minimum sized subset of $S$ such that every vertex in $U$ is adjacent to some vertex of this subset. It is NP-hard to approximate set cover to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Bingkai Lin

A spherical $t$-design is a finite subset $X$ of the unit sphere such that every polynomial of degree at most $t$ has the same average over $X$ as it does over the entire sphere. Determining the minimum possible size of spherical designs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Travis Dillon

A set of $N$ permutations of $\{1,2,\dots,v\}$ is $(N,v,t)$-suitable if each symbol precedes each subset of $t-1$ others in at least one permutation. The central problems are to determine the smallest $N$ for which such a set exists for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Justin H. C. Chan , Jonathan Jedwab

Given a weighted hypergraph $\mathcal{H}(V, \mathcal{E} \subseteq 2^V, w)$, the approximate $k$-cover problem seeks for a size-$k$ subset of $V$ that has the maximum weighted coverage by \emph{sampling only a few hyperedges} in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hung Nguyen , Phuc Thai , My Thai , Tam Vu , Thang Dinh

In this paper, we show that for all v\pmod 1 (mod 3), there exists a super- simple (v, 4, 2) directed design. Also, we show that for these parameters there exists a super-simple (v, 4, 2) directed design whose each defining set has at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-04 M. Boostan , S. Golalizadeh , N. Soltankhah