DMTCS Proceedings, 2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05)

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DMTCS Conference vol AE (2005), pp. 351-356

DMTCS

2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05)

Stefan Felsner (ed.)

DMTCS Conference Volume AE (2005), pp. 351-356


author: Jun Tarui
title: On the Minimum Number of Completely 3-Scrambling Permutations
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abstract: A family
P
= {π
1
,…,π
q
}
of permutations of
[n]={1,…,n}
is completely
k
-scrambling [Spencer, 1972; Füredi, 1996] if for any distinct
k
points
x
1
,…,x
k
∈[n]
, permutations
π
i
's in
P
produce all
k!
possible orders on
π
i
(x
1
),…,π
i
(x
k
)
. Let
N
*
(n,k)
be the minimum size of such a family. This paper focuses on the case
k=3
. By a simple explicit construction, we show the following upper bound, which we express together with the lower bound due to Füredi for comparison.
2 / 
log
2
e
log
2
n ≤ N
*
(n,3) ≤2
log
2
n + (1+o(1))
log
2
log
2
n.
We also prove the existence of
lim
n→∞
N
*
(n,3) /
log
2
n = c
3
. Determining the value
c
3
and proving the existence of
lim
n→∞
N
*
(n,k) /
log
2
n = c
k
for
k ≥4
remain open.
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reference: Jun Tarui (2005), On the Minimum Number of Completely 3-Scrambling Permutations, in 2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05), Stefan Felsner (ed.), Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Proceedings AE, pp. 351-356
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