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Kaleidoscopical Configurations in G-spaces

Combinatorics 2012-12-19 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

Let GG be a group and XX be a GG-space. A subset FF of XX is called a kaleidoscopical configuration if there exists a surjective coloring χ:XY\chi:X\to Y such that the restriction of χ\chi on each subset gFgF, gGg\in G is a bijection. We give some constructions of kaleidoscopical configurations in an arbitrary GG-space, develop some kaleidoscopical technique for Abelian groups (considered as GG-spaces with the action (g,x)g+x(g,x)\mapsto g+x), and describe kaleidoscopical configurations in the cyclic groups of order N=pmN=p^m or N=p1...pkN=p_1... p_k where pp is prime and p1,...,pkp_1,...,p_k are distinct primes. Let GG be a group and XX be a GG-space. A subset FF of XX is called a kaleidoscopical configuration if there exists a coloring χ:XC\chi:X\rightarrow C such that the restriction of χ\chi on each subset gFgF, gGg\in G, is a bijection. We present a construction (called the splitting construction) of kaleidoscopical configurations in an arbitrary GG-space, reduce the problem of characterization of kaleidoscopical configurations in a finite Abelian group GG to a factorization of GG into two subsets, and describe all kaleidoscopical configurations in isometrically homogeneous ultrametric spaces with finite distance scale. Also we construct 2c2^c (unsplittable) kaleidoscopical configurations of cardinality continuum in the Euclidean space RnR^n.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1001.0903,
  title  = {Kaleidoscopical Configurations in G-spaces},
  author = {T. O. Banakh and O. Petrenko and I. V. Protasov and S. Slobodianiuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0903},
  year   = {2012}
}

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11 pages

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