Discrepancy of sums of three arithmetic progressions (Q813920)

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Discrepancy of sums of three arithmetic progressions
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    Discrepancy of sums of three arithmetic progressions (English)
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    31 January 2006
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    Let \((X,{\mathcal F})\) be a set system on a finite set. The author proves that for the (worst-case) discrepancy \(\text{disc}({\mathcal F})=\min_{\chi:X\to\{-1,1\}}\max_{S\in{\mathcal F}}\left| \sum_{x\in S}\chi(x)\right| \) of the set system \({\mathcal F}\) formed by all sums of three arithmetic progressions on \(X=\{0,1,2,\dots,n\}\) we have \(\text{disc}({\mathcal F})=\Omega(n^{1/2})\).
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    discrepancy
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    arithmetic progression
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    circulant matrix
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