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On covering systems over finite nilpotent groups and lattices
Abstract
We prove a quantitative non-covering theorem for finite nilpotent groups. As a consequence, every finite covering of Zd by affine full-rank sublattices with pairwise distinct indices contains a member of bounded index, uniformly in d. We also establish a summability criterion allowing repeated indices, which extends to finite groups containing a normal nilpotent subgroup of bounded index.
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BibTeX
@misc{duan2026covering,
title = {{On covering systems over finite nilpotent groups and lattices}},
author = {Lian Duan and Zhenchao Ge and Biao Wang and Chunlin Wang and Boqing Xue},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.03290},
eprint = {2611.03290},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03290},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - On covering systems over finite nilpotent groups and lattices
AU - Lian Duan
AU - Zhenchao Ge
AU - Biao Wang
AU - Chunlin Wang
AU - Boqing Xue
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.03290
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03290
AB - We prove a quantitative non-covering theorem for finite nilpotent groups. As a consequence, every finite covering of Z^d by affine full-rank sublattices with pairwise distinct indices contains a member of bounded index, uniformly in d. We also establish a summability criterion allowing repeated indices, which extends to finite groups containing a normal nilpotent subgroup of bounded index.
ER -