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2025/106/1-2 (12) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2025.9991 — pp. 225-240

On some zero-sum invariants for abelian groups of rank three

Authors: Shiwen Zhang Orcid.org link for Shiwen Zhang

Abstract:

Let $G$ be an additive finite abelian group with exponent $\exp(G)$. For $L\subseteq \mathbb N$, let $\mathsf{s}_{L}(G)$ be the smallest integer $\ell$ such that every sequence $S$ over $G$ of length $\ell$ has a zero-sum subsequence $T$ of length $|T|\in L$. In this paper, we consider the invariants $\mathsf{s}_{[1,t]}(G)$ and $\mathsf{s}_{\{k\exp(G)\}}(G)$ (with $k\in \mathbb N$). We obtain precise values as well as upper bounds of the above invariants for some abelian groups of rank three. Some of these results improve previous results of Gao—Thangadurai and Han—Zhang.

Keywords: zero-sum theory, Erd\H os—Ginzburg—Ziv constant, finite abelian group

Mathematics Subject Classification: 11B13, 11B30, 20K01