Conjecture on the asymptotic injectivity of the difference-multiset map

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Let A{0,1,2,,n}A \subseteq \{0,1,2,\dots,n\} with 0A0 \in A. Define ϕ\phi on all such sets by sending AA to the multiset with A2|A|^{2} elements given by

AA={xy:x,yA}.A-A=\{ x-y:x,y\in A \}.

Difference-multiset injectivity conjecture. As nn \to \infty, the image of ϕ\phi contains 2n1+o(2n)2^{n-1}+o(2^{n}) distinct elements. For a set AA with maximum element aa', the reflected set A={aa:aA}A'=\{a'-a:a\in A\} has the same difference multiset, so the conjecture asserts that, asymptotically, a difference multiset almost always determines the pair AA and AA'. Establishing this conjecture would imply that almost all relevant 0,1-polynomials have an irreducible non-reciprocal part. The paper presents it as an open problem associated with a lemma, and does not provide a resolution.

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Michael Filaseta and Alexandros Kalogirou, “On the irreducibility of the non-cyclotomic part of most 0,1-polynomials with few terms”, arXiv:2508.12242 (2025).

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