Anabanti, C.S. and Hart, Sarah (2015) On a conjecture of Street and Whitehead on locally maximal product-free sets. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 63 , pp. 385-398. ISSN 2202-3518.
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Abstract
Let S be a non-empty subset of a group G. We say S is product-free if S contains no solutions to ab=c, and S is locally maximal if whenever T is product-free and S is a subset of T, then S = T. Finally S fills G if every non-identity element of G is contained either in S or SS, and G is a filled group if every locally maximal product-free set in G fills G. Street and Whitehead [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 17 (1974), 219–226] investigated filled groups and gave a classification of filled abelian groups. In this paper, we obtain some results about filled groups in the non-abelian case, including a classification of filled groups of odd order. Street and Whitehead conjectured that the finite dihedral group of order 2n is not filled when n = 6k + 1 (k a positive integer). We disprove this conjecture on dihedral groups, and in doing so obtain a classification of locally maximal product-free sets of sizes 3 and 4 in dihedral groups.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | sum-free, product-free, group |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hart |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2015 11:36 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:37 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13020 |
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