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On Sets of Ternary Vectors Whose Only Linear Dependencies Involve an Odd Number of Vectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. R. Berlekamp
E. R. Berlekamp*
Affiliation:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey
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Abstract.

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Recent efforts to generalize a classic result of Hajos [3] on the decomposition of finite abelian groups into direct sums of subsets (see Fuchs [1, Chap. XV]) led B. Gordon [2] to the following conjecture. If are r-dimensional row vectors over GF(3) such that: (i) Any weighted (±) sum of any even number of 's is nonzero, (ii) For each r-dimensional , there exists an s such that

Then there exists a subset of either 1 or 4 's which satisfies the same conditions.

This paper proves Gordon's conjecture.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 1970 , pp. 363 - 366
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

References

1. Fuchs, L., Abelian groups, Publ. House of the Hungarian Acad, of Sci. Budapest, 1958.Google Scholar
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3. Hajos, G., Über einfache und mehrfache Bedeckung des n-dimensionalen Raumes mit einem Würfelgitter, Math. Z. 47 (1942), 427-467.Google Scholar