On the index of length four minimal zero-sum sequences

DOI10.4064/CM135-2-4MaRDI QIDQ5168583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Caixia Shen, Yuanlin Li, Limeng Xia

Publication date 7 July 2014

Published in Colloquium Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0219

zbMATH Keywords

index of sequencesminimal zero-sum sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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 $langlegangle=G$. A conjecture on the index of length four sequences says that every minimal zero-sum sequence of length 4 over a finite cyclic group $G$ with $gcd(|G|,6)=1$ has index 1. The conjecture was confirmed recently for the case when $|G|$ is a product of at most two prime powers. However, the general case is still open. In this paper, we make some progress towards solving the general case. Based on earlier work on this problem, we show that if $G=langlegangle$ is a finite cyclic group of order $|G|=n$ such that $gcd(n,6)=1$ and $S=(x_{1}g)(x_{2}g)(x_{3}g)(x_{4}g)$ is a minimal zero-sum sequence over $G$ such that $x_1,cdots,x_{4}in[1,n-1]$ with $gcd(n,x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4)=1$, and $gcd(n,x_i)>1$ for some $iin[1,4]$, then $ind(S)=1$. By using an innovative method developed in this paper, we are able to give a new (and much shorter) proof to the index conjecture for the case when $|G|$ is a product of two prime powers.

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