Rounds in a combinatorial search problem

November 30, 2016 ยท The Ethereal ยท ๐Ÿ› Discrete Applied Mathematics

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Authors Dรกniel Gerbner, Mรกtรฉ Vizer arXiv ID 1611.10133 Category math.CO: Combinatorics Cross-listed cs.DS Citations 7 Venue Discrete Applied Mathematics Last Checked 2 months ago
Abstract
We consider the following combinatorial search problem: we are given some excellent elements of $[n]$ and we should find at least one, asking questions of the following type: "Is there an excellent element in $A \subset [n]$?". G.O.H. Katona proved sharp results for the number of questions needed to ask in the adaptive, non-adaptive and two-round versions of this problem. We verify a conjecture of Katona by proving that in the $r$-round version we need to ask $rn^{1/r}+O(1)$ queries for fixed $r$ and this is sharp. We also prove bounds for the queries needed to ask if we want to find at least $d$ excellent elements.
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