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图上的覆盖数组:定性独立图和极集划分理论

Covering arrays on graphs: qualitative independence graphs and extremal set partition theory

Karen Meagher

摘要:

本文主要研究覆盖数组的推广,覆盖数组在图上的推广。Z_k^n中的两个向量v,w是定性独立的,如果对Z_k x Z_k中的所有序偶(a,b),向量中存在位置i,其中(a,b)=(v_i,w_i)。覆盖数组是一个具有任何一对行是定性独立的性质的数组。图的覆盖数组是指图的每个顶点都有一行的数组,且具有这样的性质:对应于邻顶点的任意两行是定性独立的。在覆盖数组中添加图结构使得使用图论的方法来研究这些设计成为可能。在这篇论文中,我们定义了一类图,称为定性独立图。一个图有给定参数的覆盖阵列,当且仅当存在从该图到一个特定的定性独立图的同态。定性独立图中的团与覆盖数组有关,独立集与相交划分系统有关。已知最优二元覆盖阵列的确切大小可以使用Sperner定理和Erdos-Ko-Rado定理来确定。由于一般覆盖阵列的行对应于集合划分,我们给出了Sperner定理和Erdos-Ko-Rado定理在集合划分系统中的推广。我们还考虑了一般定性独立图的一个子图,称为一致定性独立图。我们给出了这些图中的几个图的谱,并猜想它们是一个关联图。我们还给出了一个新的覆盖阵列的结构,它产生了许多新的最佳覆盖阵列的大小的上界。

英文摘要:

The main focus of this thesis is a generalization of covering arrays, covering arrays on graphs. Two vectors v,w in Z_k^n are qualitatively independent if for all ordered pairs (a,b) in Z_k x Z_k there is a position i in the vectors where (a,b) = (v_i,w_i). A covering array is an array with the property that any pair of rows are qualitatively independent. A covering array on a graph is an array with a row for each vertex of the graph with the property that any two rows which correspond to adjacent vertices are qualitatively independent. The addition of a graph structure to covering arrays makes it possible to use methods from graph theory to study these designs. In this thesis, we define a family of graphs called the qualitative independence graphs. A graph has a covering array, with given parameters, if and only if there is a homomorphism from the graph to a particular qualitative independence graph. Cliques in qualitative independence graphs relate to covering arrays and independent sets are connected to intersecting partition systems. It is known that the exact size of an optimal binary covering array can be determined using Sperner's Theorem and the Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem. Since the rows of general covering arrays correspond to set partitions, we give extensions of Sperner's Theorem and the Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem to set-partition systems. We also consider a subgraph of a general qualitative independence graph called the uniform qualitative independence graph. We give the spectra for several of these graphs and conjecture that they are graphs in an association scheme. We also give a new construction for covering arrays which yields many new upper bounds on the size of optimal covering arrays.

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