Existence of Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant in commutative rings
Combinatorics
2020-05-20 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
Let be a commutative unitary ring. An idempotent in is an element with . The Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant associated with the ring is the smallest positive integer (if exists) such that for any given elements (not necessarily distinct) of , say , there must exist a nonempty subset with being an idempotent. In this paper, we prove that except for an infinite commutative ring with a very special form, the Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant of the ring exists if and only if is finite.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.08955,
title = {Existence of Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant in commutative rings},
author = {Guoqing Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08955},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
8 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.11489