Title
Invertible binary matrices with maximum number of 2-by-2 invertible submatrices.
Abstract
For given positive integers t≤s, what is the maximum number of t-by-t invertible submatrices in an invertible binary matrix of order s? This purely combinatorial problem is posedrecently by D’Arco, Esfahani and Stinson. The motivation is related to all-or-nothing transforms (AONTs) suggested by Rivest as a preprocessing for encrypting data with a block cipher, which has been widely applied in cryptography and security. For the case t=2, let R2(s) denote the maximal proportion of 2-by-2 invertible submatrices of s-by-s invertible matrices. D’Arco, Esfahani and Stinson ask whether lims→∞R2(s) exists or not. If it does exist, then their results indicate that the limit is between 0.494 and 0.625. In this paper we completely solve the problem by showing that lims→∞R2(s)=0.5.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.disc.2016.08.016
Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
All-or-nothing transforms,Invertible matrices
Integer,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Block cipher,Logical matrix,Cryptography,Matrix (mathematics),Invertible matrix,Mathematics,Block matrix,Binary number
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
340
2
0012-365X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.48
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiwei Zhang15212.65
Tao Zhang25710.22
Xin Wang320.82
Gennian Ge490495.51