Balanced Steinhaus triangles
Combinatorics
2025-08-08 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Number Theory
Abstract
A Steinhaus triangle modulo is a finite down-pointing triangle of elements in the finite cyclic group satisfying the same local rule as the standard Pascal triangle modulo . A Steinhaus triangle modulo is said to be balanced if it contains all the elements of with the same multiplicity. In this paper, the existence of infinitely many balanced Steinhaus triangles modulo , for any positive integer , is shown. This is achieved by considering periodic triangles generated from interlaced arithmetic progressions. This positively answers a weak version of a problem, due to John C. Molluzzo in 1978, that has remained unsolved to date for the even values of .
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@article{arxiv.2508.05159,
title = {Balanced Steinhaus triangles},
author = {Jonathan Chappelon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.05159},
year = {2025}
}