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On strongly sum-free subsets of abelian groups

Tomasz Łuczak, Tomasz Schoen (1996)

Colloquium Mathematicae

In his book on unsolved problems in number theory [1] R. K. Guy asks whether for every natural l there exists n 0 = n 0 ( l ) with the following property: for every n n 0 and any n elements a 1 , . . . , a n of a group such that the product of any two of them is different from the unit element of the group, there exist l of the a i such that a i j a i k a m for 1 j < k l and 1 m n . In this note we answer this question in the affirmative in the first non-trivial case when l=3 and the group is abelian, proving the following result.

On the f - and h -triangle of the barycentric subdivision of a simplicial complex

Sarfraz Ahmad (2013)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

For a simplicial complex Δ we study the behavior of its f - and h -triangle under the action of barycentric subdivision. In particular we describe the f - and h -triangle of its barycentric subdivision sd ( Δ ) . The same has been done for f - and h -vector of sd ( Δ ) by F. Brenti, V. Welker (2008). As a consequence we show that if the entries of the h -triangle of Δ are nonnegative, then the entries of the h -triangle of sd ( Δ ) are also nonnegative. We conclude with a few properties of the h -triangle of sd ( Δ ) .

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