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When only the empty subsum is zero modulo \(p\) (English)
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4 September 2007
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A famous conjecture of Selfridge implies that any set \(S\) of residue classes modulo a prime \(p\) having no nonempty subset summing to zero must satisfy the condition \(|S|\leq\sqrt{2p}\). The author obtains an asymptotic solution for the last question using analytical tools.
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zero-sum subset
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