Mean-Based Trace Reconstruction Over Oblivious Synchronization Channels

DOI10.1109/TIT.2022.3157383zbMATH Open1505.94050arXiv2102.09490OpenAlexW3206899477MaRDI QIDQ5088552FDOQ5088552

Authors: Mahdi Cheraghchi, J. Downs, João L. Ribeiro, Alexandra Veliche 

Publication date: 13 July 2022

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Mean-based reconstruction is a fundamental, natural approach to worst-case trace reconstruction over channels with synchronization errors. It is known that $exp(O(n^{1/3}))$ traces are necessary and sufficient for mean-based worst-case trace reconstruction over the deletion channel, and this result was also extended to certain channels combining deletions and geometric insertions of uniformly random bits. In this work, we use a simple extension of the original complex-analytic approach to show that these results are examples of a much more general phenomenon. We introduce oblivious synchronization channels, which map each input bit to an arbitrarily distributed sequence of replications and insertions of random bits. This general class captures all previously considered synchronization channels. We show that for any oblivious synchronization channel whose output length follows a sub-exponential distribution either mean-based trace reconstruction is impossible or $exp(O(n^{1/3}))$ traces suffice for this task.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09490

zbMATH Keywords

channels with synchronization errorsmean-based reconstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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