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The subsums of zero-sum free sequences in finite cyclic groups

Number Theory 2018-11-12 v1

Abstract

Let Zn\mathbb Z_n be the cyclic group of order n3n \ge 3 additively written. S. Savchev \& F. Chen (2007) proved that for each zero-sum free sequence S=a1atS = a_1 \bullet \dots \bullet a_t over Zn\mathbb Z_n of length t>n/2t > n/2, there is an integer gg coprime to nn such that, if r\overline{r} denotes the least positive integer in the congruence class rr modulo nn, then i=1tgai<n\sum_{i=1}^t \overline{ga_i} < n. Under the same hypothesis, in this paper we show that {iΛgai        Λ{1,2,,t}}={1,2,,i=1tgai}.\left\{ \sum_{i \in \Lambda} \overline{ga_i} \;\; \Bigg| \;\; \Lambda \subset \{1,2,\dots,t\} \right\} = \left\{ 1, 2, \dots, \sum_{i=1}^t \overline{ga_i}\right\}. It simplifies many calculations on inverse zero-sum problems.

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@article{arxiv.1811.03914,
  title  = {The subsums of zero-sum free sequences in finite cyclic groups},
  author = {Sávio Ribas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03914},
  year   = {2018}
}

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