Truth tellers and liars with fewer questions

Gilad Braunschvig, Alon Brutzkus, David Peleg*, Adam Sealfon

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We study the problem of using binary questions to identify a single truth teller from a collection of p players, at most ℓ of whom may lie. Our focus is on trying to solve the problem using ℓ (or slightly more than ℓ) questions, which is the fewest feasible number of questions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1310-1316
Number of pages7
JournalDiscrete Mathematics
Volume338
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Aug 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Knights and knaves
  • Searching with errors

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