Purely singular splittings of cyclic groups

Publication date 26 February 2020

Abstract: Let

G

be a finite abelian group. We say that

M

and

S

form a extsl{splitting} of

G

if every nonzero element

g

of

G

has a unique representation of the form

g = m s

with

m i n M

and

s i n S

, while

0

has no such representation. The splitting is called extit{purely singular} if for each prime divisor

p

of

| G |

, there is at least one element of

M

is divisible by

p

. In this paper, we mainly study the purely singular splittings of cyclic groups. We first prove that if

k g e 3

is a positive integer such that

[- k + 1,, k]^{*}

splits a cyclic group

m a t h b b Z_{m}

, then

m = 2 k

. Next, we have the following general result. Suppose

M = [- k_{1},, k_{2}]^{*}

splits

m a t h b b Z_{n (k_{1} + k_{2}) + 1}

with

1 l e q k_{1} < k_{2}

. If

n g e q 2

, then

k_{1} l e q n - 2

and

k_{2} l e q 2 n - 5

. Applying this result, we prove that if

M = [- k_{1},, k_{2}]^{*}

splits

m a t h b b Z_{m}

purely singularly, and either

(i)

g c d (s,, m) = 1

for all

s i n S

or

(i i)

or

2^{a l p h a} p_{1} p_{2}

with

a l p h a g e q 0

,

and

p

,

p_{1}

,

p_{2}

odd primes, then

m = k_{1} + k_{2} + 1

or

k_{1} = 0

and

m = k_{2} + 1

or

2 k_{2} + 1

.

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