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arxiv: 0710.1041 · v1 · submitted 2007-10-04 · 🧮 math.CO · math.NT

A Step Beyond Kemperman's Structure Theorem

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A classical result of Kemperman gives a complete recursive description of the structure of those subsets $A$ and $B$ of an abelian group that fail to satisfy the triangle inequality, i.e., $|A+B|<|A|+|B|$. In this paper, we achieve the complete description in the case when equality holds: $|A+B|=|A|+|B|$.

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