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Difference Covers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

TOMASZ SCHOEN
TOMASZ SCHOEN*
Affiliation:
Department of Discrete Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 87, 61-614 Poznań, Poland (e-mail: schoen@amu.edu.pl)
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Abstract

Let S be a finite set of integers. We consider a problem of finding D(S), the minimum size of a set A, such that S⊆ A−A. We give a characterization for ‘extremal’ sets and prove lower and upper bounds on D(S) in terms of additive properties of S.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , September 2007 , pp. 775 - 787
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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