On the Olson and the strong Davenport constants

DOI10.5802/jtnb.784zbMath1252.11011arXiv1008.0763OpenAlexW2963625259MaRDI QIDQ449721

Irene Santos, Andreas Philipp, Oscar Ordaz, Wolfgang Alexander Schmid

Publication date: 31 August 2012

Published in: Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0763

zbMATH Keywords

Davenport's constantOlson's constantzero sum free setszero sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequences (mod (m)) (11B50) Inverse problems of additive number theory, including sumsets (11P70) Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30)

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