On minimal product-one sequences of maximal length over Dihedral and Dicyclic groups

DOI10.4134/CKMS.C190013zbMATH Open1509.20033arXiv1901.03980MaRDI QIDQ6312397FDOQ6312397

Qinghai Zhong, Jun-Seok Oh

Publication date: 13 January 2019

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group. By a sequence over $G$, we mean a finite unordered sequence of terms from $G$, where repetition is allowed, and we say that it is a product-one sequence if its terms can be ordered such that their product equals the identity element of $G$. The large Davenport constant $mathsfD(G)$ is the maximal length of a minimal product-one sequence, that is, a product-one sequence which cannot be factored into two non-trivial product-one subsequences. We provide explicit characterizations of all minimal product-one sequences of length $mathsfD(G)$ over Dihedral and Dicyclic groups. Based on these characterizations we study the unions of sets of lengths of the monoid of product-one sequences over these groups.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Arithmetic theory of semigroups (20M13) Inverse problems of additive number theory, including sumsets (11P70)

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