Olson's theorem for cyclic groups

Abstract

Let n be a large number. A subset A of Zn is complete if SA = Zn, where SA is the collection of the subset sums of A. Olson proved that if n is a prime and |A|> 2n1/2 , then SA is complete. We show that a similar result for the case when n is a composite number, using a different approach.

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