A zero-sum sequence over ℤ is a sequence with terms in ℤ that sum to 0. It is called minimal if it does not contain a proper zero-sum subsequence. Consider a minimal zero-sum sequence over ℤ with positive terms $a₁,...,a_h$ and negative terms $b₁,...,b_k$. We prove that h ≤ ⌊σ⁺/k⌋ and k ≤ ⌊σ⁺/h⌋, where $\sigma ⁺={\sum }_{i=1}^h{a}_i=-{\sum }_{j=1}^k{b}_j$. These bounds are tight and improve upon previous results. We also show a natural partial order structure on the collection of all minimal zero-sum sequences over the set i∈ ℤ : -n ≤ i ≤ n for any positive integer n.

Let K be an algebraic number field with non-trivial class group G and ${}_K$ be its ring of integers. For k ∈ ℕ and some real x ≥ 1, let $F_k\left(x\right)$ denote the number of non-zero principal ideals $a_K$ with norm bounded by x such that a has at most k distinct factorizations into irreducible elements. It is well known that $F_k\left(x\right)$ behaves, for x → ∞, asymptotically like $x{\left(logx\right)}^{1/\left|G\right|-1}{\left(loglogx\right)}^{{}_k\left(G\right)}$. In this article, it is proved that for every prime p, $₁\left(C_p\oplus C_p\right)=2p$, and it is also proved that $₁\left(C_{mp}\oplus C_{mp}\right)=2mp$ if $₁\left(C_m\oplus C_m\right)=2m$ and m is large enough. In particular, it is shown that for...

We prove that every set A ⊂ ℤ satisfying ${\sum }_{x}min(1_A*1_A\left(x\right),t)\le (2+\delta )t\left|A\right|$ for t and δ in suitable ranges must be very close to an arithmetic progression. We use this result to improve the estimates of Green and Morris for the probability that a random subset A ⊂ ℕ satisfies |ℕ∖(A+A)| ≥ k; specifically, we show that $\mathbb{P}\left(\right|\mathbb{N}\setminus (A+A)\left|\ge k\right)=\Theta \left(2^{-k/2}\right)$.

We study the minimal number of elements of maximal order occurring in a zero-sumfree sequence over a finite Abelian p-group. For this purpose, and in the general context of finite Abelian groups, we introduce a new number, for which lower and upper bounds are proved in the case of finite Abelian p-groups. Among other consequences, our method implies that, if we denote by exp(G) the exponent of the finite Abelian p-group G considered, every zero-sumfree sequence S with maximal possible length over...

Suppose $A$ is a set of non-negative integers with upper Banach density $\alpha$ (see definition below) and the upper Banach density of $A+A$ is less than $2\alpha$. We characterize the structure of $A+A$ by showing the following: There is a positive integer $g$ and a set $W$, which is the union of $\lceil 2\alpha g-1\rceil$ arithmetic sequences [We call a set of the form $a+d\mathbb{N}$ an arithmetic sequence of difference $d$ and call a set of the form $\{a,a+d,a+2d,...,a+kd\}$ an arithmetic progression of difference $d$. So an arithmetic progression is finite and an arithmetic sequence...

We prove that there is a small but fixed positive integer $ϵ$ such that for every prime $p$ larger than a fixed integer, every subset $S$ of the integers modulo $p$ which satisfies $\left|2S\right|\le (2+ϵ)\left|S\right|$ and $2\left(\right|2S\left|\right)-2\left|S\right|+3\le p$ is contained in an arithmetic progression of length $\left|2S\right|-\left|S\right|+1$. This is the first result of this nature which places no unnecessary restrictions on the size of $S$.