English
Related papers

Related papers: Minimal zero-sum sequences of length five over fin…

200 papers

A graph $G$ of order $n$ is called edge-pancyclic if, for every integer $k$ with $3 \leq k \leq n$, every edge of $G$ lies in a cycle of length $k$. Determining the minimum size $f(n)$ of a simple edge-pancyclic graph with $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Xiamiao Zhao , Yuxuan Yang

The power graph $\mathcal{P}(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the simple graph with vertex set $G$, in which two distinct vertices are adjacent if one of them is a power of the other. For an integer $n\geq 2$, let $C_n$ denote the cyclic group…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Sanjay Mukherjee , Kamal Lochan Patra , Binod Kumar Sahoo

T\u{a}rn\u{a}uceanu described the finite groups $G$ having exactly $|G|-1$ cyclic subgroups. In "Finite Groups with a Prescribed Number of Cyclic Subgroups,", we used elementary methods to completely characterize those finite groups $G$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Richard Belshoff , Joe Dillstrom , Les Reid

A finite group is said to be $n$-cyclic if it contains $n$ cyclic subgroups. For a finite group $G$, the ratio of the number of cyclic subgroups to the number of subgroups is known as the cyclicity degree of the group $G$ and is denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Khyati Sharma , A. Satyanarayana Reddy

Let $G$ be a finite group, written multiplicatively. The Davenport constant of $G$ is the smallest positive integer $d$ such that every sequence of $G$ with $d$ elements has a non-empty subsequence with product $1$. Let $C_n \simeq \mathbb…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Fabio Enrique Brochero Martínez , Sávio Ribas

For a finite abelian group $G$ and positive integers $m$ and $h$, we let $$\rho(G, m, h) = \min \{|hA| \; : \; A \subseteq G, |A|=m\}$$ and $$\rho_{\pm} (G, m, h) = \min \{|h_{\pm} A| \; : \; A \subseteq G, |A|=m\},$$ where $hA$ and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Bela Bajnok , Ryan Matzke

Let $G$ be a generalized dicyclic group with identity $1$. An inverse closed subset $S$ of $G\setminus\{1\}$ is called minimal if $\langle S\rangle=G$ and there exists some $s\in S$ such that $\langle S\setminus\{s,s^{-1}\} \rangle\neq G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Xueyi Huang , Kinkar Chandra Das

For a finite noncyclic group $G$, let $\Cyc(G)$ be a set of elements $a$ of $G$ such that $\langle a,b\rangle$ is cyclic for each $b$ of $G$. The noncyclic graph of $G$ is a graph with the vertex set $G\setminus \Cyc(G)$, having an edge…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Xuanlong Ma , Gary L. Walls , Kaishun Wang

A cover of a finite non-cyclic group $G$ is a family $\mathcal{H}$ of proper subgroups of $G$ whose union equals $G$. A cover of $G$ is called minimal if it has minimal size, and irredundant if it does not properly contain any other cover.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Andrea Lucchini , Martino Garonzi

The power graph $\mathcal{P}(G)$ of a group $G$ is the simple graph with vertex set $G$ and two vertices are adjacent whenever one of them is a positive power of the other. In this paper, for a finite noncyclic nilpotent group $G$, we study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Ramesh Prasad Panda , Kamal Lochan Patra , Binod Kumar Sahoo

Let $G$ be a finite group, $L_1(G)$ be its poset of cyclic subgroups and consider the quantity $\alpha(G)=\frac{|L_1(G)|}{|G|}$. The aim of this paper is to study the class $\cal{C}$ of finite nilpotent groups having…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Marius Tărnăuceanu , Mihai-Silviu Lazorec

Denote the sum of element orders in a finite group $G$ by $\psi(G)$ and let $C_n$ denote the cyclic group of order $n$. Suppose that $G$ is a non-cyclic finite group of order $n$ and $q$ is the least prime divisor of $n$. We proved that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Marcel Herzog , Patrizia Longobardi , Mercede Maj

In this article, we count the quantity of minimal cyclic codes of length $n$ and dimension $k$ over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$, in the case when the prime factors of $n$ satisfy a special condition. This problem is equivalent to count the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-18 F. E. Brochero Martínez

Let $G$ be an additive finite abelian group and let $k\in [\exp(G),\mathsf{D}(G)-1]$ be a positive integer. Denote by $\mathsf{s}_{\leq k}(G)$ the smallest positive integer $l\in \mathbb{N}\cup \{+\infty\}$ such that each sequence of length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Kevin Zhao

By using the structure and some properties of extraspecial and generalized/almost extraspecial $p$-groups, we explicitly determine the number of elements of specific orders in such groups. As a consequence, one may find the number of cyclic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Mihai-Silviu Lazorec

For a finite group $G,$ $\mathsf{D}(G)$ is defined as the least positive integer $k$ such that for every sequence $S=g_1\bdot g_2\bdot \dotsc \bdot g_k$ of length $k$ over $G$, there exist $1 \le i_1 < i_2 <\cdots < i_m \le k $ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Naveen K. Godara , Renu Joshi , Eshita Mazumdar

Let G be a finite additive abelian group with exponent exp(G)=n>1 and let A be a nonempty subset of {1,...,n-1}. In this paper, we investigate the smallest positive integer $m$, denoted by s_A(G), such that any sequence {c_i}_{i=1}^m with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Sukumar Das Adhikari , David J. Grynkiewicz , Zhi-Wei Sun

Let $G$ be a multiplicatively written finite group. We denote by $\mathsf E(G)$ the smallest integer $t$ such that every sequence of $t$ elements in $G$ contains a product-one subsequence of length $|G|$. In 1961, Erd\H{o}s, Ginzburg and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Yongke Qu , Yuanlin Li

Let $G$ be a finite group, written multiplicatively. The Davenport constant of $G$ is the smallest positive integer $D(G)$ such that every sequence of $G$ with $D(G)$ elements has a non-empty subsequence with product $1$. Let $D_{2n}$ be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Fabio Enrique Brochero Martínez , Sávio Ribas

Let $G$ be a finite group written multiplicatively. By a sequence over $G$, we mean a finite sequence of terms from $G$ which is unordered, repetition of terms allowed, and we say that it is a product-one sequence if its terms can be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 A. Geroldinger , D. J. Grynkiewicz