Davenport constant for semigroups II
Combinatorics
2015-03-10 v3 Group Theory
Number Theory
Abstract
Let be a finite commutative semigroup. The Davenport constant of , denoted , is defined to be the least positive integer such that every sequence of elements in of length at least contains a proper subsequence () with the sum of all terms from equaling the sum of all terms from . Let be a prime power, and let be the ring of polynomials over the finite field . Let be a quotient ring of with . We prove that where denotes the multiplicative semigroup of the ring , and denotes the group of units in .
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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}
}
Comments
In press in Journal of Number Theory. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1409.1313 by other authors