Shotgun Assembly of Linial-Meshulam Model

Abstract

In a recent paper [6], J. Gaudio and E. Mossel studied the shotgun assembly of the Erdős-Rényi graph $\mathcal G(n,p_n)$ with $p_n=n^{-α}$, and showed that the graph is reconstructable form its $1$-neighbourhoods if $0<α< 1/3$ and not reconstructable from its $1$-neighbourhoods if $1/2 <α<1$. In this article, we generalise the notion of reconstruction of graphs to the reconstruction of simplicial complexes. We show that the Linial-Meshulam model $Y_{d}(n,p_n)$ on $n$ vertices with $p_n=n^{-α}$ is reconstructable from its $1$-neighbourhoods when $0< α< 1/3$ and is not reconstructable form its $1$-neighbourhoods when $1/2 < α< 1$.