Small subset sums
Let ||.|| be a norm in R^d whose unit ball is B. Assume that V\subset B is a finite set of cardinality n, with \sum_{v \in V} v=0. We show that for every integer k with 0 \le k \le n, there exists a subset U of V consisting of k elements such that \| \sum_{v \in U} v \| \le \lceil d/2 \rceil. We als...
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Zusammenfassung: | Let ||.|| be a norm in R^d whose unit ball is B. Assume that V\subset B is a
finite set of cardinality n, with \sum_{v \in V} v=0. We show that for every
integer k with 0 \le k \le n, there exists a subset U of V consisting of k
elements such that \| \sum_{v \in U} v \| \le \lceil d/2 \rceil. We also prove
that this bound is sharp in general. We improve the estimate to O(\sqrt d) for
the Euclidean and the max norms. An application on vector sums in the plane is
also given. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1502.04027 |