An upper bound on the number of frequency hypercubes

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Main Authors: Krotov, Denis S., Potapov, Vladimir N.
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author Krotov, Denis S.
Potapov, Vladimir N.
author_facet Krotov, Denis S.
Potapov, Vladimir N.
contents A frequency $n$-cube $F^n(q;l_0,...,l_{m-1})$ is an $n$-dimensional $q$-by-...-by-$q$ array, where $q = l_0+...+l_{m-1}$, filled by numbers $0,...,m-1$ with the property that each line contains exactly $l_i$ cells with symbol $i$, $i = 0,...,m-1$ (a line consists of $q$ cells of the array differing in one coordinate). The trivial upper bound on the number of frequency $n$-cubes is $m^{(q-1)^{n}}$. We improve that lower bound for $n>2$, replacing $q-1$ by a smaller value, by constructing a testing set of size $s^{n}$, $s<q-1$, for frequency $n$-cubes (a testing sets is a collection of cells of an array the values in which uniquely determine the array with given parameters). We also construct new testing sets for generalized frequency $n$-cubes, which are essentially correlation-immune functions in $n$ $q$-valued arguments; the cardinalities of new testing sets are smaller than for testing sets known before. Keywords: frequency hypercube, correlation-immune function, latin hypercube, testing set.
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spellingShingle An upper bound on the number of frequency hypercubes
Krotov, Denis S.
Potapov, Vladimir N.
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05B15
A frequency $n$-cube $F^n(q;l_0,...,l_{m-1})$ is an $n$-dimensional $q$-by-...-by-$q$ array, where $q = l_0+...+l_{m-1}$, filled by numbers $0,...,m-1$ with the property that each line contains exactly $l_i$ cells with symbol $i$, $i = 0,...,m-1$ (a line consists of $q$ cells of the array differing in one coordinate). The trivial upper bound on the number of frequency $n$-cubes is $m^{(q-1)^{n}}$. We improve that lower bound for $n>2$, replacing $q-1$ by a smaller value, by constructing a testing set of size $s^{n}$, $s<q-1$, for frequency $n$-cubes (a testing sets is a collection of cells of an array the values in which uniquely determine the array with given parameters). We also construct new testing sets for generalized frequency $n$-cubes, which are essentially correlation-immune functions in $n$ $q$-valued arguments; the cardinalities of new testing sets are smaller than for testing sets known before. Keywords: frequency hypercube, correlation-immune function, latin hypercube, testing set.
title An upper bound on the number of frequency hypercubes
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05B15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03694