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- Subject: mixed-field arithmetic
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- From: moon@moon.ee.usu.edu (Todd Moon)
- Date: 1 Sep 92 11:16:04
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- Here is a problem in mixed field arithmetic. In what follows, + will
- denote addition over the field of reals, and | will denote addition
- over GF(2). Multiplication is over the reals.
-
- consider a system of equations such as
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- a_1 c_0 + a_2 c_3 = s_0
- a_1 c_1 + a_2 c_4 = s_1
- a_1 c_2 + a_2 c_5 = s_2
- a_1 (c_0 | c_1) + a_2 (c_3 | c_5) = s_3
- a_1 (c_1 | c_2) + a_2 (c_3 | c|4 | c_5) = s_4
- a_1 (c_0 | c_1 | c_2) + a_2 (c_3 | c_5) = s_5
- a_1 (c_0 | c_2) + a_2 (c_4 | c_5) = s_6
-
- where a_1 and a_2 are real and known, the s_i are real and known, and
- the unknowns c_i are in GF(2) (that is, either 0 or 1). Although the
- problem has been written similar to a set of linear equations, it is
- easy to verify that this is not a linear set of equations.
-
- 1) Find the set of c_i that satisfy this set of equations. For this
- problem, it can be accomplished simply by combinatorial search
- techniques. However, there are larger problems of interest similar to
- for which searching is impractical.
-
- 2) Now consider the case of finding the "best" solution to the set of
- equations where the equality does not hold -- there is unknown "noise"
- in the equations:
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- a_1 c_0 + a_2 c_3 = s_0 + n_0
- a_1 c_1 + a_2 c_4 = s_1 + n_1
- a_1 c_2 + a_2 c_5 = s_2 + n_2
- a_1 (c_0 | c_1) + a_2 (c_3 | c_5) = s_3 + n_3
- a_1 (c_1 | c_2) + a_2 (c_3 | c|4 | c_5) = s_4 + n_4
- a_1 (c_0 | c_1 | c_2) + a_2 (c_3 | c_5) = s_5 + n_5
- a_1 (c_0 | c_2) + a_2 (c_4 | c_5) = s_6 + n_6
-
- As before, a_i and s_i are known, but the noise n_i is not known.
- Find the best (perhaps in least squares sense) set of c_i in GF(2).
-
- What would be nice would be to have an algebra for these mixed field
- problems, from which exact and pseudo-inverse solutions coulde be
- obtained.
-
- Any suggestions, comments, references, etc. would be greatly
- appreciated.
-
-
- Todd Moon
- Electrical Engineering Dept., UMC 4120
- Utah State University
- Logan, UT 84322
- 801 750 2970
- moon@moon.ee.usu.edu
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-
- Todd Moon
- Electrical Engineering Dept., UMC 4120
- Utah State University
- Logan, UT 84322
- 801 750 2970
- moon@moon.ee.usu.edu
-