Abstract
Let L(x)=a1x1+a2x2+⋅⋅⋅+anxn, n≥2, be a linear form with integer coefficients a1,a2,…,an which are not all zero. A basic problem is to determine nonzero integer vectors x such that L(x)=0, and the maximum norm ‖x‖ is relatively small compared with the size of the coefficients a1,a2,…,an. The main result of this paper asserts that there exist linearly independent vectors x1,…,x n−1∈ℤn such that L(xi)=0, i=1,…,n−1, and $$\|{\mathbf{x}}_{1}\|\cdots\|{\mathbf{x}}_{n-1}\|<\frac{\|{\mathbf{a}}\|}{\sigma_{n}},$$ where a=(a1,a2,…,an) and $$\sigma_{n}=\frac{2}{\pi}\int_{0}^{\infty}\left(\frac{\sin t}{t}\right)^{n}\,dt.$$ This result also implies a new lower bound on the greatest element of a sum-distinct set of positive integers (Erdos–Moser problem). The main tools are the Minkowski theorem on successive minima and the Busemann theorem from convex geometry.
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