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arxiv: 1609.08000 · v1 · submitted 2016-09-23 · 🧮 math.GM

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The minimum overlap problem revisited

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For a given partition of (1, 2, ..., 2n) into two disjoint subsets A and B with n elements in each, consider the maximum number of times any integer occurs as the difference between an element of A and an element of B. The minimum value of this maximum (over all partitions) is denoted by M(n). By a result of Swinnerton-Dyer, one way to estimate lim M(n)/n from above is to give step functions that describe the density of A, say, throughout the interval [1, 2n] for a large n rather than looking for explicit partitions. A step function that improves the upper bound from 0.382002... to 0.380926... is given.

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