The prime-orbit decomposition conjecture for vanishing sums of roots of unity
Let denote the set of -th roots of unity. For every prime factor of and , let
be the corresponding -orbit of -th roots of unity, whose elements sum to zero. Prime-orbit decomposition conjecture. Any subset of with sum zero is a disjoint union
where each is a -orbit and is a prime factor of . The claim proposes a general structural description of vanishing subsets of roots of unity; the supplied text gives no evidence that it has been proved or disproved, so its status remains open.
References
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Kai Wan, Daniela Tuninetti, Mingyue Ji and Pablo Piantanida, “Combination Networks with End-user-caches: Novel Achievable and Converse Bounds under Uncoded Cache Placement”, arXiv:1701.06884 (2021).
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