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This is the second installment of an exposition of an ACL2 formalization of finite group theory. The first, which was presented at the 2022 ACL2 workshop, covered groups and subgroups, cosets, normal subgroups, and quotient groups,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-16 David M. Russinoff

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a set of finite groups. A finite group $G$ is called an \emph{$\mathcal{F}$-cover} if every group in $\mathcal{F}$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $G$. An $\mathcal{F}$-cover is called \emph{minimal} if no proper…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Peter J. Cameron , David Craven , Hamid Reza Dorbidi , Scott Harper , Benjamin Sambale

Let $G$ be a finite group. By a sequence over $G$, we mean a finite unordered string of terms from $G$ with repetition allowed, and we say that it is a product-one sequence if its terms can be ordered so that their product is the identity…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Jun Seok Oh

For a finite abelian group $G$ and a positive integer $d$, let $\mathsf s_{d \mathbb N} (G)$ denote the smallest integer $\ell \in \mathbb N_0$ such that every sequence $S$ over $G$ of length $|S| \ge \ell$ has a nonempty zero-sum…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-05 Alfred Geroldinger , David J. Grynkiewicz , Wolfgang A. Schmid

$G$ be an additive finite abelian group. The Davenport constant $\mathsf D(G)$ is the smallest integer $t$ such that every sequence (multiset) $S$ over $G$ of length $|S|\ge t$ has a non-empty zero-sum subsequence. Recently, B. Girard…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Dongchun Han

The deficiency of a group is the maximum over all presentations for that group of the number of generators minus the number of relators. Every finite group has non-positive deficiency. We show that every non-positive integer is the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Giles Gardam

We provide a survey of results concerning both the direct and inverse problems to the Cauchy-Davenport theorem and Erdos-Heilbronn problem in Additive Combinatorics. We formulate an open conjecture concerning the inverse Erdos-Heilbronn…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Suren M. Jayasuriya , Steven D. Reich , Jeffrey Paul Wheeler

A generalization of the Davenport constant is investigated. For a finite abelian group $G$ and a positive integer $k$, let $D_k(G)$ denote the smallest $\ell$ such that each sequence over $G$ of length at least $\ell$ has $k$ disjoint…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-05 Michael Freeze , Wolfgang A. Schmid

We give a new proof of the known Shunkov's Theorem on locally finite groups with the minimal condition for nonabelian subgroups and also an extension of the known Suchkova-Shunkov Theorem on Shunkov groups with the minimal condition for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-11-19 N. S. Chernikov

We investigate a certain well-established generalization of the Davenport constant. For $j$ a positive integer (the case $j=1$, is the classical one) and a finite Abelian group $(G,+,0)$, the invariant $\Dav_j(G)$ is defined as the smallest…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-05 Alain Plagne , Wolfgang A. Schmid

This article focuses on the study of zero-sum invariants of finite non-abelian groups. We address two main problems: the first centers on the ordered Davenport constant and the second on Gao's constant. We establish a connection between the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Naveen K. Godara , Renu Joshi , Eshita Mazumdar

We develop a theory of eventually positive $C_0$-semigroups on Banach lattices, that is, of semigroups for which, for every positive initial value, the solution of the corresponding Cauchy problem becomes positive for large times. We give…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Daniel Daners , Jochen Glück , James B. Kennedy

The main result of [4] is that all finitely presented groups of p-deficiency greater than one are p-large. Here we prove that groups with a finite presentation of p-deficiency one possess a finite index subgroup that surjects onto . This…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Anitha Thillaisundaram

Let $G$ be an additive finite abelian group. A sequence over $G$ is called a minimal zero-sum sequence if the sum of its terms is zero and no proper subsequence has this property. Davenport's constant of $G$ is the maximum of the lengths of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Wolfgang A. Schmid

For a finite abelian group $G$ written additively, and a non-empty subset $A\subset [1,\exp(G)-1]$ the weighted Davenport Constant of $G$ with respect to the set $A$, denoted $D_A(G)$, is the least positive integer $k$ for which the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Niranjan Balachandran , Eshita Mazumdar

The Davenport constant is one measure for how "large" a finite abelian group is. In particular, the Davenport constant of an abelian group is the smallest $k$ such that any sequence of length $k$ is reducible. This definition extends…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Calvin Deng

We prove a rank-finiteness conjecture for modular categories: up to equivalence, there are only finitely many modular categories of any fixed rank. Our technical advance is a generalization of the Cauchy theorem in group theory to the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Paul Bruillard , Siu-Hung Ng , Eric C. Rowell , Zhenghan Wang

In this article, we use the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz to give new proofs of the Cauchy-Davenport, the Dias da Silva-Hamidoune and to generalize a previous addition theorem of the author. Precisely, this last result proves that for a set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Eric Balandraud

It is known that any locally graded group with finitely many derived subgroups of non-normal subgroups is finite-by-abelian. This result is generalized here, by proving that in a locally graded group $G$ the subgroup $\gamma_{k}(G)$ is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Fausto De Mari

Let $T$ be a theory which is t-minimal, meaning that with respect to some definable topology, a unary definable set $D \subseteq M$ has non-empty interior iff it is infinite. If $K$ is a definable field in $T$, then $K$ is finite or "large"…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Will Johnson