Pooling spaces associated with finite geometry

  • Authors:
  • Tayuan Huang;Kaishun Wang;Chih-wen Weng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Department of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China;Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Motivated by the works of Ngo and Du [H. Ngo, D. Du, A survey on combinatorial group testing algorithms with applications to DNA library screening, DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 55 (2000) 171-182], the notion of pooling spaces was introduced [T. Huang, C. Weng, Pooling spaces and non-adaptive pooling designs, Discrete Mathematics 282 (2004) 163-169] for a systematic way of constructing pooling designs; note that geometric lattices are among pooling spaces. This paper attempts to draw possible connections from finite geometry and distance regular graphs to pooling spaces: including the projective spaces, the affine spaces, the attenuated spaces, and a few families of geometric lattices associated with the orbits of subspaces under finite classical groups, and associated with d-bounded distance-regular graphs.