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Davenport constant for semigroups II

Combinatorics 2015-03-10 v3 Group Theory Number Theory

Abstract

Let S\mathcal{S} be a finite commutative semigroup. The Davenport constant of S\mathcal{S}, denoted D(S){\rm D}(\mathcal{S}), is defined to be the least positive integer \ell such that every sequence TT of elements in S\mathcal{S} of length at least \ell contains a proper subsequence TT' (TTT'\neq T) with the sum of all terms from TT' equaling the sum of all terms from TT. Let q>2q>2 be a prime power, and let \Fq[x]\F_q[x] be the ring of polynomials over the finite field \Fq\F_q. Let RR be a quotient ring of \Fq[x]\F_q[x] with 0R\Fq[x]0\neq R\neq \F_q[x]. We prove that D(SR)=D(U(SR)),{\rm D}(\mathcal{S}_R)={\rm D}(U(\mathcal{S}_R)), where SR\mathcal{S}_R denotes the multiplicative semigroup of the ring RR, and U(SR)U(\mathcal{S}_R) denotes the group of units in SR\mathcal{S}_R.

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@article{arxiv.1409.2077,
  title  = {Davenport constant for semigroups II},
  author = {Guoqing Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.2077},
  year   = {2015}
}

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In press in Journal of Number Theory. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1409.1313 by other authors

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