Size-separable tile self-assembly: a tight bound for temperature-1 mismatch-free systems

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DOI10.1007/978-3-319-08123-6_30zbMATH Open1415.68101arXiv1404.7410OpenAlexW1550621477MaRDI QIDQ2003454FDOQ2003454

Andrew Winslow

Publication date: 8 July 2019

Published in: Natural Computing, Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new property of tile self-assembly systems that we call size-separability. A system is size-separable if every terminal assembly is a constant factor larger than any intermediate assembly. Size-separability is motivated by the practical problem of filtering completed assemblies from a variety of incomplete "garbage" assemblies using gel electrophoresis or other mass-based filtering techniques. Here we prove that any system without cooperative bonding assembling a unique mismatch-free terminal assembly can be used to construct a size-separable system uniquely assembling the same shape. The proof achieves optimal scale factor and temperature for the size-separable system. As part of the proof, we obtain two results of independent interest on mismatch-free temperature-1 two-handed systems.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7410




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