Benjamin Girard

Maître de conférences

Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Équipe Combinatoire et Optimisation
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
4, place Jussieu - case 247
75252 Paris Cedex 05
bgirard@math.jussieu.fr

Research interests:

Additive combinatorics, Algebraic number theory, Group theory.

My PhD thesis, entitled "On some combinatorial aspects of non-unique factorization theory", was completed in 2008 at the École polytechnique (Paris), under the supervision of Alain Plagne.

Here is my CV.

Publications:

Inverse zero-sum problems and algebraic invariants.

Acta Arith. 135 (2008), 231-246. arXiv:0806.3676

A new upper bound for the cross number of finite Abelian groups.

Israel J. Math. 172 (2009), 253-278. arXiv:0712.0331

Inverse zero-sum problems in finite Abelian p-groups.

Colloq. Math. 120 (2010), 7-21. arXiv:0812.1868

On the existence of zero-sum subsequences of distinct lengths.

Rocky Mountain J. Math. 42 (2012), 583-596. arXiv:0903.3458

On a combinatorial problem of Erdős, Kleitman and Lemke.

Adv. Math. 231 (2012), 1843-1857. arXiv:1010.5042

k-sums in abelian groups (with Simon Griffiths and Yahya ould Hamidoune).

Combin. Probab. Comput. 21 (2012), 582-596. arXiv:1110.1961

Subset sums in abelian groups (with Éric Balandraud, Simon Griffiths and Yahya ould Hamidoune).

European J. Combin., Special volume in honor of Yahya ould Hamidoune, to appear. arXiv:1112.1929

A nullstellensatz for sequences over Fp (with Éric Balandraud).

Combinatorica, to appear. arXiv:1204.0373