A note on Bass' conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2023.02.014MaRDI QIDQ6427353arXivWikidataFDO

Authors D. V. Avelar, F. E. Brochero Martínez, Sávio Ribas

Publication date 22 February 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Inverse problems of additive number theory, including sumsets (11P70)

Abstract: For a finite group $G$, we denote by $sfd(G)$ and by $sfE(G)$, respectively, the small Davenport constant and the Gao constant of $G$. Let $C_n$ be the cyclic group of order $n$ and let $G_{m,n,s}=C_{n}time{s}_s{C}_m$ be a metacyclic group. In [J. Bass; {em Improving the ErdH{o}s-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem for some non-abelian groups.} J. Number Theory {�f 126} (2007), 217-236, Conjecture 17], Bass conjectured that $sfd(G_{m,n,s})=m+n-2$ and $sfE(G_{m,n,s})=mn+m+n-2$ provided $or{d}_n(s)=m$. In this paper, we show that the assumption $or{d}_n(s)=m$ is essential and cannot be removed. Moreover, if we suppose that Bass' conjecture holds for $G_{m,n,s}$ and the $mn$-product-one free sequences of maximal length are well behaved, then Bass conjecture also holds for $G_{2m,2n,r}$, where $r^{2}equivspmodn$.

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