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The exact difference size of Z/127Z is 13

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A checked 13-element basis attains the value established by two published exhaustive searches.

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Recorded scope: subsets A of the cyclic group Z/127Z whose ordered differences cover the group

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  "kind": "bounded",
  "statement": "subsets A of the cyclic group Z/127Z whose ordered differences cover the group",
  "bounds": {
    "modulus": {
      "min": 127,
      "max": 127
    }
  },
  "exhaustive": true
}

Originating problem: Difference size of Z_127

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The exact difference size of Z/127Z is 13
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{ "kind": "bounded", "statement": "subsets A of the cyclic group Z/127Z whose ordered differences cover the group", "bounds": { "modulus": { "min": 127, "max": 127 } }, "exhaustive": true }

2Authored explanation

The least cardinality is \[ \boxed{\Delta[\mathbb Z/127\mathbb Z]=13}. \] One attaining set is \[ A=\{0,1,5,11,19,38,61,78,80,81,93,102,109\}. \] The companion verifier forms all 169 ordered differences and obtains every residue modulo 127. Each nonzero residue occurs at least once.

Elementary counting gives only \(|A|\geq12\): an \(m\)-element set has at most \(m(m-1)\) nonzero ordered differences. The exclusion of cardinality 12 comes from exhaustive computation. Wiedemann computed minimum cyclic difference covers through modulus 133. Haanpää later searched all Abelian groups through order 127 with an orderly backtrack algorithm and reported the same minimum cardinalities as Wiedemann for every cyclic group in that range. Their independent results give 13 at modulus 127. Together with the displayed basis, this settles the value.

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Verification source: cs.uwaterloo.ca ↗, Harri Haanpää, Minimum Sum and Difference Covers of Abelian Groups, Journal of Integer Sequences 7 (2004), Article 04.2.6, Sections 4 and 5; Doug Wiedemann, Cyclic difference covers through 133, Congressus Numerantium 90 (1992), 181-185

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