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System of unbiased representatives for a collection of bicolorings

Authors :
Balachandran, Niranjan
Mathew, Rogers
Mishra, Tapas Kumar
Pal, Sudebkumar Prasant
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{B}$ denote a set of bicolorings of $[n]$, where each bicoloring is a mapping of the points in $[n]$ to $\{-1,+1\}$. For each $B \in \mathcal{B}$, let $Y_B=(B(1),\ldots,B(n))$. For each $A \subseteq [n]$, let $X_A \in \{0,1\}^n$ denote the incidence vector of $A$. A non-empty set $A$ is said to be an `unbiased representative' for a bicoloring $B \in \mathcal{B}$ if $\left\langle X_A,Y_B\right\rangle =0$. Given a set $\mathcal{B}$ of bicolorings, we study the minimum cardinality of a family $\mathcal{A}$ consisting of subsets of $[n]$ such that every bicoloring in $\mathcal{B}$ has an unbiased representative in $\mathcal{A}$.<br />Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1704.07716
Document Type :
Working Paper