-completeness of generalized multi-Skolem sequences

  • Authors:

  • Gustav Nordh

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A Skolem sequence is a sequence a1,a2,…,a2 n (where ai∈A={1,…,n}), each ai occurs exactly twice in the sequence and the two occurrences are exactly ai positions apart. A set A that can be used to construct Skolem sequences is called a Skolem set. The existence question of deciding which sets of the form A={1,…,n} are Skolem sets was solved by Skolem [On certain distributions of integers in pairs with given differences, Math. Scand. 5 (1957) 57-68] in 1957. Many generalizations of Skolem sequences have been studied. In this paper we prove that the existence question for generalized multi-Skolem sequences is -complete. This can be seen as an upper bound on how far the generalizations of Skolem sequences can be taken while still hoping to resolve the existence question.