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A Note On the Size of Largest Bins Using Placement With Linear Transformations

Discrete Mathematics 2018-10-11 v1

Abstract

We study the placement of n balls into n bins where balls and bins are represented as two vector spaces over Z 2 . The placement is done according to a linear transformation between the two vector spaces. We analyze the expected size of a largest bin. The only currently known upper bound is O(log n log log n) by Alon et al. and holds for placing n log n balls into n bins. We show that this bound can be improved to O(log n) in the case when n balls are placed into n bins. We use the same basic technique as Alon et al. but give a tighter analysis for this case.

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@article{arxiv.1810.04161,
  title  = {A Note On the Size of Largest Bins Using Placement With Linear Transformations},
  author = {Martin Babka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04161},
  year   = {2018}
}
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