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On a Combinatorial Problem in Number Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Bernt Lindström*
Affiliation:
University of Stockholm
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Given an integer k ≤ 2 and a finite set M of rational integers. Let vi (i = 1, 2, …, n) be m-dimensional (column-)vectors with all components from M and such that the kn sums

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are all different. Then we shall say that {v1, v2, …, vn} is a detecting set of vectors.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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