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On the Olson and the Strong Davenport constants

Oscar Ordaz, Andreas Philipp, Irene Santos, Wolfgang A. Schmid (2011)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

A subset S of a finite abelian group, written additively, is called zero-sumfree if the sum of the elements of each non-empty subset of S is non-zero. We investigate the maximal cardinality of zero-sumfree sets, i.e., the (small) Olson constant. We determine the maximal cardinality of such sets for several new types of groups; in particular, p -groups with large rank relative to the exponent, including all groups with exponent at most five. These results are derived as consequences of more general...

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