Groups whose locally maximal product-free sets are complete
Abstract
Let be a finite group and a subset of . Then is product-free if , and complete if . A product-free set is locally maximal if it is not contained in a strictly larger product-free set. If is product-free and complete then is locally maximal, but the converse does not necessarily hold. Street and Whitehead [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 17 (1974), 219--226] defined a group as filled if every locally maximal product-free set in is complete (the term comes from their use of the phrase ` fills ' to mean is complete). They classified all abelian filled groups, and conjectured that the finite dihedral group of order is not filled when (). The conjecture was disproved by two of the current authors in [Austral. J. Combin. 63 (3) (2015), 385--398], where we also classified the filled groups of odd order. In this paper we classify filled dihedral groups, filled nilpotent groups and filled groups of order where is an odd prime. We use these results to determine all filled groups of order up to 2000.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.09662,
title = {Groups whose locally maximal product-free sets are complete},
author = {Chimere S. Anabanti and Grahame Erskine and Sarah B. Hart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09662},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
16 pages, preprint