Asymmetrical Primitive Centrifuge Configurations and Vanishing Sums of Roots of Unity

A centrifuge has some fixed number of positions into each of which a sample may be loaded. Equal-weight samples must be placed so that they’re perfectly balanced.

In the attached article, I present an asymmetric balanced irreducible centrifuge configuration, and relate configurations to sums of roots of unity.

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