Exponential Lower Bounds on the Generalized Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv Constant

Jared Bitz, Sarah Griffith, Xiaoyu He

For a finite abelian group $G$, the generalized Erdős--Ginzburg--Ziv constant ${\mathsf{s}}_k(G)$ is the smallest $m$ such that a sequence of $m$ elements in $G$ always contains a $…