TY - JOUR
T1 - Strongly separable matrices for nonadaptive combinatorial group testing
AU - Fan, Jinping
AU - Fu, Hung Lin
AU - Gu, Yujie
AU - Miao, Ying
AU - Shigeno, Maiko
N1 - Funding Information:
Research supported by JSPS, Japan Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) under Grant No. 18H01133.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/3/11
Y1 - 2021/3/11
N2 - In nonadaptive combinatorial group testing (CGT), it is desirable to identify a small set of up to d defectives from a large population of n items with as few tests (i.e. large rate) and efficient identifying algorithm as possible. In the literature, d-disjunct matrices (d-DM) and d̄-separable matrices (d̄-SM) are two classical combinatorial structures having been studied for several decades. It is well-known that a d-DM provides a more efficient identifying algorithm than a d̄-SM, while a d̄-SM could have a larger rate than a d-DM. In order to combine the advantages of these two structures, in this paper, we introduce a new notion of strongly d-separable matrix (d-SSM) for nonadaptive CGT, which is sandwiched between d-DM and d̄-SM. We show that a d-SSM has the identifying algorithm more efficient than a d̄-SM, as well as the largest rate no less than a d-DM. In addition, the general bounds on the largest rate of d-SSM are established. Moreover, by the random coding method with expurgation, we derive an improved lower bound on the largest rate of 2-SSM which is much higher than the best known result of 2-DM.
AB - In nonadaptive combinatorial group testing (CGT), it is desirable to identify a small set of up to d defectives from a large population of n items with as few tests (i.e. large rate) and efficient identifying algorithm as possible. In the literature, d-disjunct matrices (d-DM) and d̄-separable matrices (d̄-SM) are two classical combinatorial structures having been studied for several decades. It is well-known that a d-DM provides a more efficient identifying algorithm than a d̄-SM, while a d̄-SM could have a larger rate than a d-DM. In order to combine the advantages of these two structures, in this paper, we introduce a new notion of strongly d-separable matrix (d-SSM) for nonadaptive CGT, which is sandwiched between d-DM and d̄-SM. We show that a d-SSM has the identifying algorithm more efficient than a d̄-SM, as well as the largest rate no less than a d-DM. In addition, the general bounds on the largest rate of d-SSM are established. Moreover, by the random coding method with expurgation, we derive an improved lower bound on the largest rate of 2-SSM which is much higher than the best known result of 2-DM.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.dam.2020.11.022
DO - 10.1016/j.dam.2020.11.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098128177
VL - 291
SP - 180
EP - 187
JO - Discrete Applied Mathematics
JF - Discrete Applied Mathematics
SN - 0166-218X
ER -