Costa–Morini–Pasotti–Pellegrini partial-sums conjecture for abelian groups

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Let (G,+)(G,+) be an abelian group, and let AA be a finite subset of G∖{0}G\setminus\{0\}. Assume that no two-element subset {x,−x}\{x,-x\} is contained in AA, and that

∑a∈Aa=0.\sum_{a\in A}a=0.

For an ordering (a1,…,ak)(a_1,\ldots,a_k) of AA, define partial sums by sj=∑i=1jais_j=\sum_{i=1}^j a_i. Costa–Morini–Pasotti–Pellegrini conjecture. There exists an ordering of the elements of AA such that the partial sums are all distinct. The conjecture would imply that every Heffter system is simple, connecting the partial-sums problem with cyclic cycle systems. Its general status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Simone Costa, Fiorenza Morini, Anita Pasotti and Marco Antonio Pellegrini, “A problem on partial sums in abelian groups”, arXiv:1706.00042 (2017).

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