Zero-sum problems for abelian <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-groups and covers of the integers by residue classes |
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Authors: | Zhi-Wei Sun |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, People’s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | Zero-sum problems for abelian groups and covers of the integers by residue classes, are two different active topics initiated
by P. Erdős more than 40 years ago and investigated by many researchers separately since then. In an earlier announcement
S03b], the author claimed some surprising connections among these seemingly unrelated fascinating areas. In this paper we
establish further connections between zero-sum problems for abelian p-groups and covers of the integers. For example, we extend the famous Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem in the following way: If
{ a
s
(mod ns)}s=1k covers each integer either exactly 2q − 1 times or exactly 2q times where q is a prime power, then for any c
1,...,c
k
∈ ℤ/qℤ there exists an I ⊆ {1,...,k} such that ∑
s∈I
1/n
s
= q and ∑
s∈I
c
s
= 0. The main theorem of this paper unifies many results in the two realms and also implies an extension of the Alon-Friedland-Kalai
result on regular subgraphs.
The author is supported by the National Science Foundation (grant 10871087) of China. |
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