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anonimnystefy
2012-11-28 01:27:21

Hi naumberg

You can use the math tag {math}{/math} except that the brackets are square and not curly...

bobbym
2012-11-27 18:17:56

Hi;

I am sorry but I can not read that very well.

Naumberg
2012-11-27 11:16:29

Hi bobbym!

I solved the problem. Please find my tex code below (compile yourself for better reading, sry!)

Cheers
Michael

We want to determine a strategy to select an increasing subsequence of $x_1,...,x_n$. Let $Y$ be the length of our increasing subsequence. As $X$ is defined as the longest increasing subsequence we surely have $E[X] \ge E[Y]$. Depending on how good our strategy is we hope to get $E[Y] \ge (1-o(1))(1-\frac{1}{e})\sqrt{n}$ which would complete the proof.

Let us assume that $m:= \sqrt{n}$ is an integer and partition our random sequence in blocks $L_j=(x_{(j-1)m+1},...,x_{jm} )$ for $j=1,...,m$ (we can assume this as we look at asymptotics in $n$ in the end).

The strategy picks the first number $y_1$ out of $x_1,...,x_n$ that is $\le \frac{1}{m}$ and skips to the next block. It then continuous to pick a number $y_i$ in each of the remaining blocks if $y_{i-1} \le y_i \le y_{i-1} + \frac{1}{m}$ and skips this block otherwise. At the end we receive an increasing subsequence $y_1,...,y_Y$ of length $Y$.

Code:

input: sequence x(1),...x(n)
output: length Y of an increasing subsequence y(1)<=...<=y(Y)

Y = 0         \\ counting the length of the subsequence
s = zero array     \\ storing the subsequence here

\\ go through intervals elements of L_j
for j = 1 to m
{
\\ boolean helper to implement stopping time, i.e. breaking condition for the loop
success == 0
while (success == 0) do
{
\\ go through elements of L_j
for k = (j-1)*m+1 to j*m
{
\\ find a larger element which is still small enough
if (s(Y) <= x_k <= s(Y)+1/m)
{
Y = Y+1       \\ length of subsequence ++
s(Y) = x_k      \\ store element
success == 1   \\ stop searching in L_j
\\ and go to next interval
}
}
}
}

return(Y)

Now let us estimate the expectation of $Y$,

\begin{alignat*}{1}
E[Y] &= E[\sum_{j=1}^{m} \mathds{1}_{\{ \text{ "found suitable number in }L_j\text{ " }\}}]\\
&= \sum_{j=1}^{m}E[ \mathds{1}_{\{ \text{ "found suitable number in }L_j\text{ " }\}}]
\end{alignat*}

As our "tolerance of increase" $\frac{1}{m}$ stays the same for all numbers we search for, all $x_i$ are independently and uniformly distributed and all parts of the sequence $L_j$ contain the same amount of numbers $m$ we get that

\begin{alignat*}{1}
E[Y] &= m P[ \text{ "found suitable number in }L_1 \text{ " }]\\
&= m (1- P[\forall i=1,...,m : x_i > \frac{1}{m}]) \\
&= m (1- (P[x_1 > \frac{1}{m}])^m) \\
&= m (1- (1- \frac{1}{m})^m) \\
&= \sqrt{n} (1- (1- \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}})^{\sqrt{n}}) \\
&= (1-o(1))(1-\frac{1}{e})\sqrt{n}.
\end{alignat*}

So our strategy gives the lower bound $E[X] \ge E[Y]$.

bobbym
2012-11-24 16:06:09

Hi Naumberg;

I have looked through 3 papers on this exact subject and the original paper by Erdos and Szekeres. In all of them it seems that the bound

was a major achievement. I could not find anyway to tie in what they were doing with the sharper bound you are interested in. I would very much like to see your answer when you find it.

Naumberg
2012-11-24 10:37:20

Cool. Thanks in advance for your help!

bobbym
2012-11-24 10:30:38

Hi;

I will look at it and post if I solve it. Thanks for the images.

Naumberg
2012-11-24 10:12:20

Logging in is sometimes helpful ...

bobbym
2012-11-24 09:38:05

Hi;

Do you see this?

Naumberg
2012-11-24 09:30:17

Mmh, I am really a newbie

1. Post a reply - ok
2. upload - how/where? I see no button and cannot use "[img][/img]"

bobbym
2012-11-24 09:21:05

Hi;

Yes, just use image upload in Post reply. Do not use quick post.

Naumberg
2012-11-24 09:15:17

Unfortunately not. But I could scan you the respective page from the notes. Is there a possibility to upload it here?

bobbym
2012-11-24 08:42:42

Hi;

Is the lecture online?

Naumberg
2012-11-24 08:39:06

Hi

I cross-checked the paper and this is clearly way to complicated as we usually solve those exercises with one page maximum. One can attend this lecture from the third year or higher.

bobbym
2012-11-24 08:28:01

Hi;

I am looking at a paper that discusses this problem but I am not understanding where he is going. Maybe you can follow it better:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/do … p;type=pdf

Naumberg
2012-11-24 08:15:49

Sure. In the lecture we had the following version of Erdos/Szerkeres which applies to continuous data as well:

Let

be a seuqence of n distinct numbers. Then this sequence contains an increasing subsequence or a decreasing subsequence of length
.

Now define another sequence
. If
is the length of the longest increasing subsequence in
, then
are identically distributed and