Costa–Morini–Pasotti–Pellegrini simple-orderability conjecture

Let GG be an abelian group and let XG{0}X\subseteq G\setminus\{0\}. Call XX simply orderable when its elements can be arranged so that every nonempty proper consecutive subsequence has nonzero sum. Costa–Morini–Pasotti–Pellegrini conjecture. If XX is finite and has zero sum, and there is no element xx such that {x,x}X\{x,-x\}\subseteq X, then XX is simply orderable. This is a conjecture about simple orderings in abelian groups, related to the notion of sequenceable groups; the source does not state that it has been resolved.

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Benedek Kovács, “Finding a perfect matching of F_2^n with prescribed differences”, arXiv:2310.17433 (2024).

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