Remarks on the plus-minus weighted Davenport constant
Number Theory
2013-08-16 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
For a finite abelian group the plus-minus weighted Davenport constant, denoted , is the smallest such that each sequence over has a weighted zero-subsum with weights +1 and -1, i.e., there is a non-empty subset such that for . We present new bounds for this constant, mainly lower bounds, and also obtain the exact value of this constant for various additional types of groups.
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@article{arxiv.1308.3316,
title = {Remarks on the plus-minus weighted Davenport constant},
author = {Luz Elimar Marchan and Oscar Ordaz and Wolfgang Schmid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3316},
year = {2013}
}