Archdeacon–Dinitz–Mattern–Stinson distinct partial sums conjecture
Let be an abelian group, let have , and, for an ordering of , define partial sums by and
Archdeacon–Dinitz–Mattern–Stinson conjecture. For any cyclic group and any subset , there is an ordering of the elements of such that for .
This is weaker than Alspach's conjecture because it does not require and does not compare the positive partial sums with . It was verified computationally for and proved for ; its general validity remains open.
References
Primary source
Jacob Hicks, M. A. Ollis and John. R. Schmitt, “Distinct Partial Sums in Cyclic Groups: Polynomial Method and Constructive Approaches”, arXiv:1809.02684 (2018).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1706.00042.
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