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Cover-free families on hypergraphs and combinatorial group testing.
Thaís Bardini Idalino1, Lucia Moura2
1Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
|June 17, 2026
Summary
Combinatorial group testing (CGT) uses cover-free families (CFFs) to efficiently identify defective items. This study generalizes CFFs for structured item sets, like disease transmission networks, optimizing test numbers.
Area of Science:
- Combinatorics
- Computer Science
- Applied Mathematics
Background:
- Combinatorial group testing (CGT) identifies defective items using group tests.
- Cover-free families (CFFs) are key combinatorial structures for efficient decoding in CGT.
- Existing CFFs do not account for inherent structures within item sets.
Purpose of the Study:
- To generalize cover-free families (CFFs) for combinatorial group testing (CGT) on structured item sets.
- To develop efficient decoding algorithms and bounds for CFFs on hypergraphs.
- To explore applications in areas like infectious disease testing within clustered populations.
Main Methods:
- Modeling item structures using hypergraphs, where vertices represent items and edges represent relationships.
- Investigating generalized CFFs on these hypergraphs.
- Developing and analyzing decoding algorithms, bounds, and constructions for CFFs on hypergraphs.
Main Results:
- Introduced and defined various types of CFFs tailored for hypergraph structures.
- Presented decoding algorithms specifically designed for CFFs on hypergraphs.
- Provided several novel constructions of CFFs on hypergraphs that leverage underlying structural properties.
Conclusions:
- Generalizing CFFs to hypergraphs offers a powerful framework for optimizing CGT in structured populations.
- The proposed methods and constructions enhance the efficiency of identifying defective items in complex scenarios.
- This research bridges theoretical combinatorics with practical applications in public health and other fields.
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