Jaeger–Linial–Payan–Tarzi additive bases conjecture for finite vector spaces

Let pp be a prime, let Zpn\mathbb{Z}_p^n be the nn-dimensional vector space over Zp\mathbb{Z}_p, and let an additive basis be a multiset BB of elements of Zpn\mathbb{Z}_p^n such that

S(B)={bSbSB}=Zpn.\mathcal{S}(B)=\left\{\sum_{b\in S}b\mid S\subseteq B\right\}=\mathbb{Z}_p^n.

A basis is a basis of the vector space Zpn\mathbb{Z}_p^n.

Jaeger–Linial–Payan–Tarzi conjecture. For every prime pp, there exists a constant kpk_p such that the union, with repetitions, of any kpk_p bases for Zpn\mathbb{Z}_p^n forms an additive basis.

This conjecture would generalize important results concerning nowhere-zero flows; in particular, the case p=3p=3 would imply the weak 33-flow conjecture. The source does not provide evidence of a resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

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Hamed Hatami and Victoria de Quehen, “On the additive bases problem in finite fields”, arXiv:1607.00563 (2016).

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