String Quartets in Binary

  • Authors:
  • Noga Alon;János Körner;Angelo Monti

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: noga@math.tau.ac.il);Department of Computer Science, University of Rome I ‘La Sapienza’, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy (e-mail: korner@dsi.uniroma1.it, monti@dsi.uniroma1.it);Department of Computer Science, University of Rome I ‘La Sapienza’, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy (e-mail: korner@dsi.uniroma1.it, monti@dsi.uniroma1.it)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Let M(n, A) denote the maximum possible cardinality of a family of binary strings of length n, such that for every four distinct members of the family there is a coordinate in which exactly two of them have a 1. We prove that M(n, A) ≤ 20.78n for all sufficiently large n. Let M(n, C) denote the maximum possible cardinality of a family of binary strings of length n, such that for every four distinct members of the family there is a coordinate in which exactly one of them has a 1. We show that there is an absolute constant c M(n, C) ≤ 2cn for all sufficiently large n. Some related questions are discussed as well.