The critical number of finite abelian groups
Number Theory
2008-10-20 v1
Abstract
Let G be an additive, finite abelian group. The critical number of is the smallest positive integer such that for every subset with the following holds: Every element of can be written as a nonempty sum of distinct elements from . The critical number was first studied by P. Erd\H{o}s and H. Heilbronn in 1964, and due to the contributions of many authors the value of is known for all finite abelian groups except for where are primes such that . We determine that for such groups.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.3223,
title = {The critical number of finite abelian groups},
author = {Michael Freeze and Weidong Gao and Alfred Geroldinger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3223},
year = {2008}
}