Maximizing the number of rational-value sums or zero-sums

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Main Authors: Móricz, Benjamin, Nagy, Zoltán Lóránt
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author Móricz, Benjamin
Nagy, Zoltán Lóránt
author_facet Móricz, Benjamin
Nagy, Zoltán Lóránt
contents What is the maximum number of $r$-term sums admitting rational values in $n$-element sets of irrational numbers? We determine the maximum when $r<4$ or $r\geq n/2$ and also in case when we drop the condition on the number of summands. It turns out that the $r$-term sum problem is equivalent to determine the maximum number of $r$-term zero-sum subsequences in $n$-element sequences of integers, which can be seen as a variant of the famous Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem.
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spellingShingle Maximizing the number of rational-value sums or zero-sums
Móricz, Benjamin
Nagy, Zoltán Lóránt
Combinatorics
Number Theory
What is the maximum number of $r$-term sums admitting rational values in $n$-element sets of irrational numbers? We determine the maximum when $r<4$ or $r\geq n/2$ and also in case when we drop the condition on the number of summands. It turns out that the $r$-term sum problem is equivalent to determine the maximum number of $r$-term zero-sum subsequences in $n$-element sequences of integers, which can be seen as a variant of the famous Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem.
title Maximizing the number of rational-value sums or zero-sums
topic Combinatorics
Number Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04449