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On the invariant E(G) for groups of odd order

Combinatorics 2021-07-19 v2

Abstract

Let GG be a multiplicatively written finite group. We denote by E(G)\mathsf E(G) the smallest integer tt such that every sequence of tt elements in GG contains a product-one subsequence of length G|G|. In 1961, Erd\H{o}s, Ginzburg and Ziv proved that E(G)2G1\mathsf E(G)\leq 2|G|-1 for every finite solvable group GG and this result is well known as the Erd\H{o}s-Ginzburg-Ziv Theorem. In 2010, Gao and Li improved this result to E(G)7G41\mathsf E(G)\leq\frac{7|G|}{4}-1 and they conjectured that E(G)3G2\mathsf E(G)\leq \frac{3|G|}{2} holds for any finite non-cyclic group. In this paper, we confirm the conjecture for all finite non-cyclic groups of odd order.

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@article{arxiv.2107.06198,
  title  = {On the invariant E(G) for groups of odd order},
  author = {Weidong Gao and Yuanlin Li and Yongke Qu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.06198},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, to appear in Acta Arithmetica