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On the Harborth constant of $C_3 \oplus C_{3n}$

Combinatorics 2018-08-03 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

For a finite abelian group (G,+,0)(G,+, 0) the Harborth constant g(G)\mathsf{g}(G) is the smallest integer kk such that each squarefree sequence over GG of length kk, equivalently each subset of GG of cardinality at least kk, has a subsequence of length exp(G)\exp(G) whose sum is 00. In this paper, it is established that g(G)=3n+3\mathsf{g}(G)= 3n + 3 for prime n3n \neq 3 and g(C3C9)=13\mathsf{g}(C_3 \oplus C_9)= 13.

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@article{arxiv.1808.00722,
  title  = {On the Harborth constant of $C_3 \oplus C_{3n}$},
  author = {Philippe Guillot and Luz Elimar Marchan and Oscar Ordaz and Wolfgang Schmid and Hanane Zerdoum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.00722},
  year   = {2018}
}