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On Additive Combinatorics of Permutations of ℤn
L.S. Chandran, , N. Singh
Published in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
2014
Volume: 16
   
Issue: 2
Pages: 35 - 40
Abstract
Let ℤn denote the ring of integers modulo n. A permutation of ℤn is a sequence of n distinct elements of ℤn. Addition and subtraction of two permutations is defined element-wise. In this paper we consider two extremal problems on permutations of ℤn, namely, the maximum size of a collection of permutations such that the sum of any two distinct permutations in the collection is again a permutation, and the maximum size of a collection of permutations such that no sum of two distinct permutations in the collection is a permutation. Let the sizes be denoted by s(n) and t(n) respectively. The case when n is even is trivial in both the cases, with s(n) = 1 and t(n) = n!. For n odd, we prove (nφ(n))=2k ≥ s(n) ≥ n!-2-(n-1)=2 ((n-1)=2)! and 2(n-1)=2 - ( n-1 2 )! ≥ t(n) - 2k - (n - 1)!=φ(n), where k is the number of distinct prime divisors of n and φ is the Euler's totient function. © 2014 Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS), Nancy, France.
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JournalDiscrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
PublisherDiscrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
ISSN14627264
Open AccessYes