The conjecture on maximal elasticity differences in transfer Krull monoids

Let GG be a finite abelian group, and let HH be a transfer Krull monoid over GG, meaning that there is a transfer homomorphism HB(G)H\to\mathcal B(G) to the monoid of zero-sum sequences over GG. Let Δρ(H)\Delta_{\rho}(H) denote the set of positive integers dd such that, for every kNk\in\mathbb N, some set of lengths LkL(H)L_k\in\mathcal L(H) with maximal elasticity has a sufficiently long arithmetic progression of difference dd in the prescribed structure. The maximal elasticity difference conjecture. If G>4|G|>4, then

Δρ(H)={1}\Delta_{\rho}(H)=\{1\}

if and only if GG is neither cyclic nor an elementary 22-group.

This conjecture concerns the fine structure of sets of lengths having maximal elasticity and was first formulated in the cited earlier work. The supplied text does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Aqsa Bashir, Alfred Geroldinger and Qinghai Zhong, “On a zero-sum problem arising from factorization theory”, arXiv:2007.10094 (2020).

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