Coordinatewise Balanced Covering for Linear Gain Graphs, with an Application to Coset-List Min-2-Lin over Powers of Two
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| contents | We study a list-constrained extension of modular equation deletion over powers of two, called Coset-List Min-2-Lin$^{\pm}$ over $\mathbb{Z}/2^d\mathbb{Z}$. Each variable is restricted to a dyadic coset $a+2^{\ell}(\mathbb{Z}/2^d\mathbb{Z})$, each binary constraint is of the form $x_u=x_v$, $x_u=-x_v$, or $x_u=2x_v$, and the goal is to delete a minimum number of constraints so that the remaining system is satisfiable. This problem lies between the no-list case and the poorly understood fully conservative list setting.
Our main technical result is a coordinatewise balanced covering theorem for linear gain graphs labeled by vectors in $\mathbb{F}_2^r$. Given any balanced subgraph of cost at most $k$, a randomized procedure outputs a vertex set $S$ and an edge set $F$ such that $(G-F)[S]$ is balanced and, with probability $2^{-O(k^2r)}$, every hidden balanced subgraph of cost at most $k$ is contained in $S$ while all incident deletions are captured by $F$. The proof tensors the one-coordinate balanced-covering theorem of Dabrowski, Jonsson, Ordyniak, Osipov, and Wahlström across coordinates, and is combined with a rank-compression theorem replacing the ambient lifted dimension by the intrinsic cycle-label rank $ρ$.
We also develop a cycle-space formulation, a cut-space/potential characterization of balancedness, a minimal-dimension statement for equivalent labelings, and an explicit bit-lifting analysis for dyadic coset systems. These yield a randomized one-sided-error algorithm running in \[ 2^{O(k^2ρ+k\log(kρ+2))}\cdot n^{O(1)}+\widetilde{O}(md+ρ^ω), \] and the same framework returns a minimum-weight feasible deletion set among all solutions of size at most $k$. |
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| spellingShingle | Coordinatewise Balanced Covering for Linear Gain Graphs, with an Application to Coset-List Min-2-Lin over Powers of Two Alpay, Faruk Sarioglu, Levent Data Structures and Algorithms Computational Complexity 68Q25, 68Q27, 05C85 We study a list-constrained extension of modular equation deletion over powers of two, called Coset-List Min-2-Lin$^{\pm}$ over $\mathbb{Z}/2^d\mathbb{Z}$. Each variable is restricted to a dyadic coset $a+2^{\ell}(\mathbb{Z}/2^d\mathbb{Z})$, each binary constraint is of the form $x_u=x_v$, $x_u=-x_v$, or $x_u=2x_v$, and the goal is to delete a minimum number of constraints so that the remaining system is satisfiable. This problem lies between the no-list case and the poorly understood fully conservative list setting. Our main technical result is a coordinatewise balanced covering theorem for linear gain graphs labeled by vectors in $\mathbb{F}_2^r$. Given any balanced subgraph of cost at most $k$, a randomized procedure outputs a vertex set $S$ and an edge set $F$ such that $(G-F)[S]$ is balanced and, with probability $2^{-O(k^2r)}$, every hidden balanced subgraph of cost at most $k$ is contained in $S$ while all incident deletions are captured by $F$. The proof tensors the one-coordinate balanced-covering theorem of Dabrowski, Jonsson, Ordyniak, Osipov, and Wahlström across coordinates, and is combined with a rank-compression theorem replacing the ambient lifted dimension by the intrinsic cycle-label rank $ρ$. We also develop a cycle-space formulation, a cut-space/potential characterization of balancedness, a minimal-dimension statement for equivalent labelings, and an explicit bit-lifting analysis for dyadic coset systems. These yield a randomized one-sided-error algorithm running in \[ 2^{O(k^2ρ+k\log(kρ+2))}\cdot n^{O(1)}+\widetilde{O}(md+ρ^ω), \] and the same framework returns a minimum-weight feasible deletion set among all solutions of size at most $k$. |
| title | Coordinatewise Balanced Covering for Linear Gain Graphs, with an Application to Coset-List Min-2-Lin over Powers of Two |
| topic | Data Structures and Algorithms Computational Complexity 68Q25, 68Q27, 05C85 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18661 |