Chun-Yiu Sze

The fourth generalized Davenport constant of $C_5^3$

For a finite abelian group $G$ and $k \geq 1$, the generalized Davenport constant $D_k(G)$ is the least $\ell$ such that every sequence over $G$ of length at least $\ell$ has $k$ pairwise disjoint nonempty zero-sum subsequences. A theorem of Freeze and Schmid gives $D_k(C_5^3) \geq 5k+10$ for every $k \geq 2$. We prove...