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Constructions of Generalized Sidon Sets
We give explicit constructions of sets S with the property that for each
integer k, there are at most g solutions to k=s_1+s_2, s_i\in S; such sets are
called Sidon sets if g=2 and generalized Sidon sets if g\ge 3. We extend to
generalized Sidon sets the Sidon-set constructions of Singer, Bose, and Ruzsa.
We also further optimize Koulantzakis' idea of interleaving several copies of a
Sidon set, extending the improvements of Cilleruelo & Ruzsa & Trujillo, Jia,
and Habsieger & Plagne. The resulting constructions yield the largest known
generalized Sidon sets in virtually all cases.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figure (revision fixes typos, adds a few details, and
adjusts notation
Construction of Bh[g] sets in product of groups
A subset A of an abelian group G is a Bh[g] set on G if every element of G
can be written at most g ways as sum of h elements in A. In this work we
present three constructions of Bh[g] sets on product of groups.Comment: 10 page
Hard Instances of the Constrained Discrete Logarithm Problem
The discrete logarithm problem (DLP) generalizes to the constrained DLP,
where the secret exponent belongs to a set known to the attacker. The
complexity of generic algorithms for solving the constrained DLP depends on the
choice of the set. Motivated by cryptographic applications, we study sets with
succinct representation for which the constrained DLP is hard. We draw on
earlier results due to Erd\"os et al. and Schnorr, develop geometric tools such
as generalized Menelaus' theorem for proving lower bounds on the complexity of
the constrained DLP, and construct sets with succinct representation with
provable non-trivial lower bounds
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