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On some zero-sum invariants for abelian groups of rank three

Combinatorics 2023-10-10 v1

Abstract

Let GG be an additive finite abelian group with exponent exp(G)\exp(G). For LNL\subseteq \mathbb N, let sL(G)\mathsf{s}_{L}(G) be the smallest integer \ell such that every sequence SS over GG of length \ell has a zero-sum subsequence TT of length TL|T|\in L. In this paper, we consider the invariants s[1,t](G)\mathsf{s}_{[1,t]}(G) and s{kexp(G)}(G)\mathsf{s}_{\{k\exp(G)\}}(G) (with kNk\in \mathbb N). We obtain precise values as well as upper bounds of the above invariants for some abelian groups of rank three. Some of these results improve previous results of Gao-Thangadurai and Han-Zhang.

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@article{arxiv.2310.05458,
  title  = {On some zero-sum invariants for abelian groups of rank three},
  author = {Shiwen Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05458},
  year   = {2023}
}