On the structure of $p$-zero-sum free sequences and its application to a variant of Erdos--Ginzburg--Ziv theorem

W D Gao, A Panigrahi, R Thangadurai

Let $p$ be any odd prime number. Let $k$ be any positive integer such that $2\le k\le [\frac{p+1}{3}]+1$. Let $S=(a_1,a_2,...,a_{2p-k})$ be any sequence in ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$ such that…