简介:<正>Foranyintegersa1,a2,a3,a4andcwitha1a2a3a40(modp),thispapershowsthatthereexistsasolutionX=(x1,x2,x3,x4)∈Z4ofthecongruencea1x12+a2x22+a3x32+a4x42≡c(modp)suchthat‖X‖=max{|x1|,|x2|,|x3|,|x4|}《p1/2logp.
简介:At-hyperwheel(t≥3)oflengthl(orW(t)lforbrevity)isat-uniformhypergraph(V,E),whereE={e1,e2,...,el}andv1,v2,...,vlaredistinctverticesofV=∪eii=1lsuchthatfori=1,...,l,vi,vi+1∈eiandei∩ej=P,j∈/{i1,i,i+1},wheretheoperationonthesubscriptsismodulolandPisavertexofVwhichisdifferentfromvi,1≤i≤l.Inthispaper,theminimumcoveringproblemofMCλ(3,W(3)4,v)isinvestigated.DirectandrecursiveconstructionsonMCλ(3,W(3)4,v)arepresented.Thecoveringnumbercλ(3,W(3)4,v)isfinallydeterminedforanypositiveintegersv≥5andλ.