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Upper Bounds for the Davenport Constant

R. Balasubramanian, Gautami Bhowmik

math.NTarXiv:math/0601374

Abstract

We prove that for all but a certain number of abelian groups of order n its Davenport constant is atmost n/k+k-1 for k=1,2,..,7. For groups of order three we improve on the existing bound involving the Alon-Dubiner constant.

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