A103314 conjecture
T. D. Noe
noe at sspectra.com
Fri May 20 16:58:31 CEST 2005
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>> f(p) = 2 (obvious, either all or none) [f = A103314]
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>Can you explain to me why it's obvious?
There is an interesting paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/9511209
titled "On vanishing sums for roots of unity". It corroborates the results
in A103306, which shows that if primes p1,..,pr divide n , then there are
subsets of size m1*p1+m2*p2+...+mr*pr that sum to zero for any nonnegative
integers m1,..,mr.
I wonder whether it would be useful to count the primitive subsets that sum
to zero; that is, subsets which have no subsets summing to zero.
Tony
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