Alspach's conjecture on distinct nonzero partial sums in cyclic groups
Let satisfy
An ordering of the elements of is simple when its partial sums are all distinct and non-zero. Alspach's conjecture. Every such admits a simple ordering. The conjecture would shorten some proofs concerning the existence of cycle decompositions. It is known when , when , and for ; the general case remains open.
References
Primary source
A. Pasotti and J. H. Dinitz, “A survey of Heffter arrays”, arXiv:2209.13879 (2022).
Additional references
7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2205.10164, arXiv:2109.09365, arXiv:2010.10948, arXiv:1809.02684, arXiv:1501.06872, arXiv:1412.0949.
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