Balanced factorizations

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.123.10.989MaRDI QIDQ4576573zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Anton A. Klyachko, Anton N. Vassilyev

Publication date 12 July 2018

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01571

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations in general fields (12E12) Field arithmetic (12E30) Elliptic curves (14H52) Conditions on elements (16U99)

Abstract: Any rational number can be factored into a product of several rationals whose sum vanishes. This simple but nontrivial fact was suggested as a problem on a maths olympiad for high-school students. We completely solve similar questions in all finite fields and in some other rings, e.g., in the complex and real matrix algebras. Also, we state several open questions.

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