Erdős problem 707
Erdős conjectured, in over a dozen papers spanning 1976 to 1997 and with a 1000 dollars prize attached, that every finite Sidon set extends to a perfect difference set modulo for some prime . Alexeev and Mixon establish that is a counterexample - and discovered along the way that Marshall Hall, Jr. had published a different counterexample three decades before Erdős first posed the problem, unnoticed by the community for half a century.
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- 6 solved · 5 textbook
- Erdős Problems says
- disproved (Lean)
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- No current contribution
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- 0 checks · 11 formal
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