Title of article
Universal number partition problem with divisibility
Author/Authors
Berger، نويسنده , , Lisa and Dror، نويسنده , , Moshe and Lynch، نويسنده , , James، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
Pages
7
From page
1692
To page
1698
Abstract
We examine a version of the Universal Number Partition Problem with a divisibility property referred to as the Universal Shelf Packing Problem (USPP). We show that if a shelf length is a product of powers of two primes the USPP is always partitionable. In the case where the shelf length is a product of three distinct primes we propose an efficient scheme to determine when such a case is not partitionable. We also show that a shelf length that is a product of powers of four or more primes always has at least one partition failure. Our analysis uses elementary number theory, known results related to the linear Diophantine Frobenius problem, and a new result on Frobenius gaps.
Keywords
Packing , Frobenius problem , Integer partitions
Journal title
Discrete Mathematics
Serial Year
2012
Journal title
Discrete Mathematics
Record number
1599969
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