The Davenport constant of a box
Combinatorics
2016-09-06 v2 Number Theory
Abstract
Given an additively written abelian group and a set , we let denote the monoid of zero-sum sequences over and the Davenport constant of , namely the supremum of the positive integers for which there exists a sequence of such that for each non-empty proper subset of . In this paper, we mainly investigate the case when is a power of and is a box (i.e., a product of intervals of ). Some mixed sets (e.g., the product of a group by a box) are studied too, and some inverse results are obtained.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.4363,
title = {The Davenport constant of a box},
author = {Alain Plagne and Salvatore Tringali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4363},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
23 pages, no figures; fixed minor mistakes; added a new reference