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The Plus-Minus Davenport Constant Of Finite Abelian Groups, Darleen S. Perez-Lavin
The Plus-Minus Davenport Constant Of Finite Abelian Groups, Darleen S. Perez-Lavin
Theses and Dissertations--Mathematics
Let G be a finite abelian group, written additively. The Davenport constant, D(G), is the smallest positive number s such that any subset of the group G, with cardinality at least s, contains a non-trivial zero-subsum. We focus on a variation of the Davenport constant where we allow addition and subtraction in the non-trivial zero-subsum. This constant is called the plus-minus Davenport constant, D±(G). In the early 2000’s, Marchan, Ordaz, and Schmid proved that if the cardinality of G is less than or equal to 100, then the D±(G) …