On zero-sum subsequences of length \(k \exp(G)\) (Q2451902)

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On zero-sum subsequences of length \(k \exp(G)\)
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    On zero-sum subsequences of length \(k \exp(G)\) (English)
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    26 May 2014
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    The generalized Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv constant \(s_{k\exp(G)}(G)\) is defined to be the smallest integer \(t\) such that every sequence \(S\) over \(G\) of length \(t\) contains a zero-sum subsequence of length \(k\exp(G)\), where \(G\) is a finite abelian group and \(\exp(G)\) is the exponent of \(G\). There are several results on this constant, such as \(s_{k\exp(G)}(G)=k\exp(G)+D(G)-1\) if \(k\exp(G)\geq |G|\), where \(D(G)\) is the Davenport constant of \(G\). In this paper, the authors prove that \(s_{k\exp(G)}(G)=k \exp(G)+D(G)-1\) for all \(k\geq 2\) when \(\exp(G)\) is sufficiently large.
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    zero-sum sequence
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    Davenport constant
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    zero-sum free sequence
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