Modular Schur numbers
Combinatorics
2013-06-25 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
For any positive integers l and m, a set of integers is said to be (weakly) l-sum-free modulo m if it contains no (pairwise distinct) elements satisfying the congruence . It is proved that, for any positive integers k and l, there exists a largest integer for which the set of the first positive integers admits a partition into k (weakly) l-sum-free sets modulo m. This number is called the generalized (weak) Schur number modulo , associated with k and l. In this paper, for all positive integers k and l, the exact value of these modular Schur numbers are determined for m=1, 2 and 3.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.5635,
title = {Modular Schur numbers},
author = {Jonathan Chappelon and María Pastora Revuelta Marchena and María Isabel Sanz Domínguez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5635},
year = {2013}
}
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25 pages, 3 tables