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Groups whose locally maximal product-free sets are complete

Combinatorics 2016-10-03 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

Let GG be a finite group and SS a subset of GG. Then SS is product-free if SSS=S \cap SS = \emptyset, and complete if GSSSG^{\ast} \subseteq S \cup SS. A product-free set is locally maximal if it is not contained in a strictly larger product-free set. If SS is product-free and complete then SS 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 GG as filled if every locally maximal product-free set SS in GG is complete (the term comes from their use of the phrase `SS fills GG' to mean SS is complete). They classified all abelian filled groups, and conjectured that the finite dihedral group of order 2n2n is not filled when n=6k+1n=6k+1 (k1k\geq 1). 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 2np2^np where pp is an odd prime. We use these results to determine all filled groups of order up to 2000.

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@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}
}

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16 pages, preprint

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