On the Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv constant of groups of the form C₂^r C_n

Abstract: Let

G

be a finite abelian group. The Erd{H{o}}s-Ginzburg-Ziv constant

m a t h s f s (G)

of

G

is defined as the smallest integer

l i n m a t h b b N

such that every sequence

S

over

G

of length

| S | g e q l

has a zero-sum subsequence

T

of length

| T | = e x p (G)

. The value of this classical invariant for groups with rank at most two is known. But the precise value of

m a t h s f s (G)

for the groups of rank larger than two is difficult to determine. In this paper we pay our attentions to the groups of the form

C_{2}^{r - 1} o p l u s C_{2 n}

, where

r g e q 3

and

n g e 2

. We give a new upper bound of

m a t h s f s (C_{2}^{r - 1} o p l u s C_{2 n})

for odd integer

n

. For

r i n [3, 4]

, we obtain that

m a t h s f s (C_{2}^{2} o p l u s C_{2 n}) = 4 n + 3

for

n g e 2

and

m a t h s f s (C_{2}^{3} o p l u s C_{2 n}) = 4 n + 5

for

n g e q 36

.

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