Problem

Source: IMO Shortlist 1995, N7

Tags: combinatorics, partition, Additive combinatorics, Additive Number Theory, IMO Shortlist



Does there exist an integer $ n > 1$ which satisfies the following condition? The set of positive integers can be partitioned into $ n$ nonempty subsets, such that an arbitrary sum of $ n - 1$ integers, one taken from each of any $ n - 1$ of the subsets, lies in the remaining subset.