Zero-sum invariants of finite abelian groups

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to provide an unified way to formulate zero-sum invariants. Let $G$ be a finite additive abelian group. Let $B(G)$ denote the set consisting of all nonempty zero-sum sequences over G. For $\Omega \subset B(G$), let $d_{\Omega }(G)$ be the smallest integer $t$ such that every sequence $S$ over $G$ of length $|S|\ge t$ has a subsequence in $\Omega$.We provide some first results and open problems on $d_{\Omega }(G)$.