Maximum shattering

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Autores principales: Alon, Noga, Sivashankar, Varun, Zhu, Daniel G.
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author Alon, Noga
Sivashankar, Varun
Zhu, Daniel G.
author_facet Alon, Noga
Sivashankar, Varun
Zhu, Daniel G.
contents A family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ shatters a set $A \subseteq [n]$ if for every $A' \subseteq A$ there is an $F \in \mathcal{F}$ such that $F \cap A=A'$. We develop a framework to analyze $f(n,k,d)$, the maximum possible number of subsets of $[n]$ of size $d$ that can be shattered by a family of size $k$. Among other results, we determine $f(n,k,d)$ exactly for $d \leq 2$ and show that if $d$ and $n$ grow, with both $d$ and $n-d$ tending to infinity, then, for any $k$ satisfying $2^d \leq k \leq (1+o(1))2^d$, we have $f(n,k,d)=(1+o(1))c\binom{n}{d}$, where $c$, roughly $0.289$, is the probability that a large square matrix over $\mathbb{F}_2$ is invertible. This latter result extends work of Das and Mészáros. As an application, we improve bounds for the existence of covering arrays for certain alphabet sizes.
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spellingShingle Maximum shattering
Alon, Noga
Sivashankar, Varun
Zhu, Daniel G.
Combinatorics
05D05
A family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ shatters a set $A \subseteq [n]$ if for every $A' \subseteq A$ there is an $F \in \mathcal{F}$ such that $F \cap A=A'$. We develop a framework to analyze $f(n,k,d)$, the maximum possible number of subsets of $[n]$ of size $d$ that can be shattered by a family of size $k$. Among other results, we determine $f(n,k,d)$ exactly for $d \leq 2$ and show that if $d$ and $n$ grow, with both $d$ and $n-d$ tending to infinity, then, for any $k$ satisfying $2^d \leq k \leq (1+o(1))2^d$, we have $f(n,k,d)=(1+o(1))c\binom{n}{d}$, where $c$, roughly $0.289$, is the probability that a large square matrix over $\mathbb{F}_2$ is invertible. This latter result extends work of Das and Mészáros. As an application, we improve bounds for the existence of covering arrays for certain alphabet sizes.
title Maximum shattering
topic Combinatorics
05D05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12945