The fixed-size MSTD–MDTS conjecture for dihedral groups

Let D2nD_{2n} be the dihedral group of order 2n2n. For a positive integer mm, let S2n,m\mathcal S_{2n,m} denote the collection of subsets of D2nD_{2n} of size mm. A subset is MSTD if its sumset has greater cardinality than its difference set, and MDTS if its difference set has greater cardinality than its sumset.

Fixed-size MSTD–MDTS conjecture. For every integer n3n\geq 3 and every m2nm\leq 2n, the collection S2n,m\mathcal S_{2n,m} has at least as many MSTD sets as MDTS sets.

The source reports that this conjecture is known for m=2m=2, m=3m=3, and m>nm>n; the general fixed-size assertion remains open in the supplied text.

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Ruben Ascoli, Justin Cheigh, Guilherme Zeus Dantas e Moura, Ryan Jeong, Andrew Keisling, Astrid Lilly, Steven J. Miller, Prakod Ngamlamai and Matthew Phang, “Sum and Difference Sets in Generalized Dihedral Groups”, arXiv:2210.00669 (2022).

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