The mod-3 power-sum conjecture for real multisets

Let XX be a multiset of nn real numbers, and define its power sums by

ϖk(X)=qXqk.\varpi_k(X)=\sum_{q\in X}q^k.

Mod-3 power-sum conjecture. A real multiset XX of cardinality nn is uniquely determined by the nn values

ϖ3k2(X),k=1,2,,n.\varpi_{3k-2}(X),\qquad k=1,2,\ldots,n.

The preceding lemma establishes the analogous statement using the first nn consecutive power sums, while this conjecture asks whether the power sums with exponents congruent to 11 modulo 33 suffice instead. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source context.

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Dmitriy Rumynin and James Taylor, “Brauer's 14th Problem and Dyson's Tenfold Way”, arXiv:2503.10590 (2025).

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