A characterization of elementary abelian 3-groups

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Authors Chimere Stanley Anabanti

Publication date 6 March 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06546, http://www.math.md/files/qrs/v27-n2/v27-n2-(pp175-180).pdf

zbMATH Keywords

elementary abelian groupsmaximal sum-free setssum-free sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (05E16) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Finite abelian groups (20K01)

Abstract: Tarnauceanu [Archiv der Mathematik, 102 (1), (2014), 11--14] gave a characterisation of elementary abelian $2$-groups in terms of their maximal sum-free sets. His theorem states that a finite group $G$ is an elementary abelian $2$-group if and only if the set of maximal sum-free sets coincides with the set of complements of the maximal subgroups. A corollary is that the number of maximal sum-free sets in an elementary abelian $2$-group of finite rank $n$ is $2^n-1$. Regretfully, we show here that the theorem is wrong. We then prove a correct version of the theorem from which the desired corollary can be deduced. Moreover, we give a characterisation of elementary abelian $3$-groups in terms of their maximal sum-free sets. A corollary to our result is that the number of maximal sum-free sets in an elementary abelian $3$-group of finite rank $n$ is $3^n-1$. Finally, for prime $p>3$ and $ninmathbbN$, we show that there is no direct analogue of this result for elementary abelian $p$-groups of finite rank $n$.

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