The generalized Erdős–Ginzburg–Ziv conjecture for finite groups

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Let GG be a finite group. For a sequence over GG, let d(G){\mathsf d}(G) denote the maximal length of a zero-sum free sequence, and let Em(G){\mathsf E}_m(G) denote the least integer nn such that every sequence over GG of length at least nn contains mm disjoint subsequences, each of length ∣G∣|G| and each having sum zero in GG.

Generalized Erdős–Ginzburg–Ziv conjecture. For every finite group GG,

Em(G)=d(G)+m∣G∣.{\mathsf E}_m(G)={\mathsf d}(G)+m|G|.

The equality is known for finite Abelian groups, nilpotent groups, groups of the form Cm⋉φCmnC_m\ltimes_\varphi C_{mn}, dihedral and dicyclic groups, and all non-Abelian groups of order pqpq with pp and qq prime. The conjecture proposes that it holds for every finite group.

References

Primary source

Maciej Zakarczemny, “On the zero-sum constant, the Davenport constant and their analogues”, arXiv:1905.07648 (2019).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1807.00648.

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