Infinite Families of Partitions into MSTD Subsets
Abstract
A set is MSTD (more-sum-than-difference) if . Though MSTD sets are rare, Martin and O'Bryant proved that there exists a positive constant lower bound for the proportion of MSTD subsets of as . Later, Asada et al. showed that there exists a positive constant lower bound for the proportion of decompositions of into two MSTD subsets as . However, the method is probabilistic and does not give explicit decompositions. Continuing this work, we provide an efficient method to partition (for sufficiently large) into MSTD subsets, positively answering a question raised by Asada et al. as to whether this is possible for all such . Next, let be the smallest integer such that for all , can be -decomposed into MSTD subsets. We establish rough lower and upper bounds for . Lastly, we provide a sufficient condition on when there exists a positive constant lower bound for the proportion of decompositions of into MSTD subsets as .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.05460,
title = {Infinite Families of Partitions into MSTD Subsets},
author = {Hung Viet Chu and Noah Luntzlara and Steven J. Miller and Lily Shao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05460},
year = {2019}
}
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20 pages