On the Subgroup Distance Problem in Cyclic Permutation Groups

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author Rosowski, Andreas
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contents We show that the Subgroup distance problem regarding the Hamming distance, the Cayley distance and the $l_\infty$ distance is NP-complete when the input group is cyclic. When we restrict the $l_\infty$ distance to fixed values we show that it is NP-complete to decide whether there are numbers $z_1,z_2 \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $l_\infty(β, α_1^{z_1}α_2^{z_2}) \leq 1$ for permutation $α_1,α_2,β\in S_n$ where $α_1$ and $α_2$ commute. However on the positive side we can show that it can be decided in NL whether there is a number $z \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $l_\infty(β, α^z) \leq 1$ for permutations $α,β\in S_n$. For the former we provide a tool, namely for all numbers $t_1,t_2,t \in \mathbb{N}$ where $t$ is required to be odd, $0 \leq t_1 < t_2 < t$ and $t_1 \not\equiv t_2 \bmod q$ for all primes $q \mid t$ we give a constructive proof for the existence of permutations $α,β\in S_t$ with $l_\infty(β, α^{t_1}) \leq 1$ and $l_\infty(β, α^{t_2}) \leq 1$.
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spellingShingle On the Subgroup Distance Problem in Cyclic Permutation Groups
Rosowski, Andreas
Group Theory
We show that the Subgroup distance problem regarding the Hamming distance, the Cayley distance and the $l_\infty$ distance is NP-complete when the input group is cyclic. When we restrict the $l_\infty$ distance to fixed values we show that it is NP-complete to decide whether there are numbers $z_1,z_2 \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $l_\infty(β, α_1^{z_1}α_2^{z_2}) \leq 1$ for permutation $α_1,α_2,β\in S_n$ where $α_1$ and $α_2$ commute. However on the positive side we can show that it can be decided in NL whether there is a number $z \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $l_\infty(β, α^z) \leq 1$ for permutations $α,β\in S_n$. For the former we provide a tool, namely for all numbers $t_1,t_2,t \in \mathbb{N}$ where $t$ is required to be odd, $0 \leq t_1 < t_2 < t$ and $t_1 \not\equiv t_2 \bmod q$ for all primes $q \mid t$ we give a constructive proof for the existence of permutations $α,β\in S_t$ with $l_\infty(β, α^{t_1}) \leq 1$ and $l_\infty(β, α^{t_2}) \leq 1$.
title On the Subgroup Distance Problem in Cyclic Permutation Groups
topic Group Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06844