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Main Authors: Eisel, Roma, McMullen, Valerie, Muth, Robert
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07604
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author Eisel, Roma
McMullen, Valerie
Muth, Robert
author_facet Eisel, Roma
McMullen, Valerie
Muth, Robert
contents We consider a combinatorial question about searching for an unknown ideal $μ$ within a known pointed poset $λ$. Elements of $λ$ may be queried for membership in $μ$, but at most $k$ positive queries are permitted. We provide a general search strategy for this problem, and establish new bounds (based on $k$ and the degree and height of $λ$) for the total number of queries required to identify $μ$. We show that this strategy performs asymptotically optimally on the family of complete $\ell$-ary trees as the height grows.
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spellingShingle An efficient search strategy for hidden ideals in pointed partially ordered sets
Eisel, Roma
McMullen, Valerie
Muth, Robert
Combinatorics
06A07, 90C27
We consider a combinatorial question about searching for an unknown ideal $μ$ within a known pointed poset $λ$. Elements of $λ$ may be queried for membership in $μ$, but at most $k$ positive queries are permitted. We provide a general search strategy for this problem, and establish new bounds (based on $k$ and the degree and height of $λ$) for the total number of queries required to identify $μ$. We show that this strategy performs asymptotically optimally on the family of complete $\ell$-ary trees as the height grows.
title An efficient search strategy for hidden ideals in pointed partially ordered sets
topic Combinatorics
06A07, 90C27
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07604