Minimum product set sizes in nonabelian groups of order pq
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Deckelbaum, Alan T.
Date Issued
March 2009
Journal
Journal of Number Theory
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Elsevier
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Deckelbaum, Alan. “Minimum Product Set Sizes in Nonabelian Groups of Order Pq.” Journal of Number Theory 129, no. 6 (June 2009): 1234–1245. © 2009 Elsevier Inc.
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Abstract
Let G be a nonabelian group of order pq, where p and q are distinct odd primes. We analyze the minimum product set cardinality μG(r,s)=min|AB|μG(r,s)=min|AB|, where A and B range over all subsets of G of cardinalities r and s , respectively. In this paper, we completely determine μG(r,s)μG(r,s) in the case where G has order 3p and conjecture that this result can be extended to all nonabelian groups of order pq. We also prove that for every nonabelian group of order pq there exist 1⩽r,s⩽pq1⩽r,s⩽pq such that μG(r,s)>μZ/pqZ(r,s)μG(r,s)>μ[subscript Z over pqZ(r,s)].
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2009.02.006