Monday, 15 July 2013

Problem of the Week [July 15, 2013]

A Skolem sequence of order  is a sequence  of   integers satisfying the conditions:

i) For every  in , there exist exactly two elements  and  with  .
ii) If  with , then .

For example,  is a Skolem sequence of order 4. If  is a non-negative integer, prove that there is no Skolem sequence of order  if  is of the form  or .

Correct answers as well as solutions will be acknowledged.

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