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Reconstructing a point set from a random subset of its pairwise distances

Combinatorics 2023-01-27 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let VV be a set of nn points on the real line. Suppose that each pairwise distance is known independently with probability pp. How much of VV can be reconstructed up to isometry? We prove that p=(logn)/np = (\log n)/n is a sharp threshold for reconstructing all of VV which improves a result of Benjamini and Tzalik. This follows from a hitting time result for the random process where the pairwise distances are revealed one-by-one uniformly at random. We also show that 1/n1/n is a weak threshold for reconstructing a linear proportion of VV.

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@article{arxiv.2301.11019,
  title  = {Reconstructing a point set from a random subset of its pairwise distances},
  author = {António Girão and Freddie Illingworth and Lukas Michel and Emil Powierski and Alex Scott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11019},
  year   = {2023}
}

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13 pages

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