Minimal zero-sum sequences of length four over finite cyclic groups. II.

DOI10.1142/S1793042113500012MaRDI QIDQ4923253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuanlin Li, Jiangtao Peng

Publication date 6 June 2013

Published in International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1682

zbMATH Keywords

index of sequencesminimal zero-sum sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30) Sequences (mod (m)) (11B50) Finite abelian groups (20K01)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite cyclic group. Every sequence $S$ over $G$ can be written in the form $S=(n_{1}g)cdotldotscdot(n_{l}g)$ where $ginG$ and $n_1,ldots,n_{l}in[1,ord(g)]$, and the index $ind(S)$ of $S$ is defined to be the minimum of $(n_1+cdots+n_l)/ord(g)$ over all possible $ginG$ such that $langlegangle=G$. An open problem on the index of length four sequences asks whether or not every minimal zero-sum sequence of length 4 over a finite cyclic group $G$ with $gcd(|G|,6)=1$ has index 1. In this paper, we show that if $G=langlegangle$ is a cyclic group with order of a product of two prime powers and $gcd(|G|,6)=1$, then every minimal zero-sum sequence $S$ of the form $S=(g)(n_{2}g)(n_{3}g)(n_{4}g)$ has index 1. In particular, our result confirms that the above problem has an affirmative answer when the order of $G$ is a product of two different prime numbers or a prime power, extending a recent result by the first author, Plyley, Yuan and Zeng.

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