학술논문

Reconstructing a point set from a random subset of its pairwise distances
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Subject
Mathematics - Combinatorics
Mathematics - Metric Geometry
05C80
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Abstract
Let $V$ be a set of $n$ points on the real line. Suppose that each pairwise distance is known independently with probability $p$. How much of $V$ can be reconstructed up to isometry? We prove that $p = (\log n)/n$ is a sharp threshold for reconstructing all of $V$ which improves a result of Benjamini and Tzalik. This follows from a hitting time result for the random process where the pairwise distances are revealed one-by-one uniformly at random. We also show that $1/n$ is a weak threshold for reconstructing a linear proportion of $V$.
Comment: 13 pages