On complete subsets of the cyclic group
Number Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A subset of an abelian is said to be {\em complete} if every element of the subgroup generated by can be expressed as a nonempty sum of distinct elements from . Let be such that all the elements of are coprime with . Solving a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Heilbronn, Olson proved that is complete if is a prime and if Recently Vu proved that there is an absolute constant , such that for an arbitrary large , is complete if and conjectured that 2 is essentially the right value of . We show that is complete if , thus proving the last conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0704.0541,
title = {On complete subsets of the cyclic group},
author = {Y. O. Hamidoune and A. S. Lladó and O. Serra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0541},
year = {2007}
}